Gruffness Quotes

#1. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#2. You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

Victor Cruz

#3. The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

Xenophon

#4. The night was crisp and the stars shone with a cold blue light like loneliness or infinity.

Christopher Moore

#5. It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Jon Foreman

#6. Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?"
"You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours.

Karen Witemeyer

#7. I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

Miuccia Prada

#8. Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

Capers Jones