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Quotes About Rugged

I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you, the farmer continued in an easier tone, and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things.
~ Thomas Hardy
The shirt molded to his shoulders and chest. His biceps stretched the sleeves. He looked strong, and rugged, and rough around the edges. He needed an ax or something, so he could casually swing it while he walked. I tilted my head and just watched.
~ Ilona Andrews
There are few places in my life that I've found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place is magical - it's so far north, so remote, that sometimes it feels like you've left this world and gone to another.
~ Julia London
The moon is very rugged.
~ Alan Bean
can only say that we shall continue in the path of rugged individualism, free from the influence of sinister interests, upholding the finest ideals of honesty, independence and integrity, so that, to quote Abraham Lincoln, 'This nation of the people, for the people and by the people shall not perish from the earth.
~ George S. Schuyler
The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
~ James McBride
He had always admired his colleagues in the life and earth sciences who could hit the road on short notice with a fully stocked backpack and live rugged adventuresome lives in exotic locales. But he had admired them from a distance.
~ Neal Stephenson
She loved to see that smile, the way it transformed his face from rugged, dangerous, very masculine beauty to something much softer and approachable.
~ Christine Feehan
Welcome to the American sector! Feast your eyes on glorious Pluto, her wild frontier, her high standard of living, her rugged, hardworking citizens, her purple mountains majesty! Ride the mighty buffalo! Marvel at the bustling industry of the great cities of Jizo and Ascalaphus! Climb the peaks of Mt. Orcus and Mt. Chernobog!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
O let them be left, wildness and wet
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.
~ Jason O'Mara
I grew up riding quads, shooting guns and playing sports.
~ Sonya Deville
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
~ Maureen McCormick
Iceland, the land of frost and fire, rugged glaciers and smoldering volcanoes
~ Clive Cussler
These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.
~ Grover Cleveland
Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, eighteen thousand acres of rugged wilderness.
~ James Patterson
All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
~ Charlotte Smith
Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, putting the national interest first, not last.
~ Dominic Raab
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
~ Roger Bannister
On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music.
~ JPEGMAFIA
Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just intense.
~ Leon Gorman
I identify with Wyoming, I love the state of Wyoming, I love the people. It's a fantastic state - people that live in rugged conditions and who make their living doing things in the outdoors.
~ Erik Prince
I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
~ John Sandford