Quotes 21 till 40 of 43.
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Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.Source: Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love -
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Source: Beatrix Potters Letters -
The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
Source: On War (1832) -
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
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Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
Than hew to't with thy sword.Source: Timon of Athens IV -
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
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