Rough And Ready Quotes

#1. She acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.

Christopher Isherwood

#2. His master was a man with the heart of a dog. He was a rambler, a rough-and-ready soldier of fortune, a one-of-a-kind two-leg who improvised the rules as he went along. They

Paul Auster

#3. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance.

Bruce Bairnsfather

#4. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#5. That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.

James C. Scott

#6. Tis I, my sweet, your rough-and-ready man
Well hid by night to beg your fine white hand
Though king of bandits, draped in chains of gold
I'm poor in love and suffer grief untold

Shannon Hale

#7. I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Pietro Mascagni

#8. But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough and ready as in our poor idiotic language; and Harry lies about himself twice over when he employs this niggardly wolf-theory.

Hermann Hesse

#9. The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft.

Chris Hadfield

#10. The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

Hal Porter

#11. A champion is someone ho gets up,
een when he can't

Jack Dempsey

#12. I will be happy when the way is rough, because it gives my patience a chance to grow. So I will let it grow, and not try to squirm out of my problems. For when my patience is finally in full bloom, then I will be ready for anything, strong in character, full and complete. (James 1: 2-4 NLT)

Cherie Hill

#13. I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.

James T. Walsh

#14. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

William Shakespeare

#15. It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Margot Asquith

#16. We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

Winston S. Churchill

#17. I concluded by saying that the SEALs in that room truly gave meaning to George Orwell's observation that "people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." page 546

Robert M. Gates

#18. Then he was done. He pulled away, rolled onto his back. "I'm sorry," he said. "You're welcome," she said. She believed in answering what people meant, not what they said.

Orson Scott Card

#19. We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"
Opening to "My Father's Son," attributed to George Orwell

George Orwell

#20. We may get so fixed on one area that we neglect everything else. Life becomes like a tire with a bald spot that is ballooning and ready to blow out. That makes the going rough. For everybody. Long before the blow out.

J. Grant Howard

#21. No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

Nancy Thayer

#22. Come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did
this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

Daphne Gottlieb

#23. You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.

Charles Dickens

#24. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Mel Brooks

#25. We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.' - George Orwell

Conn Iggulden

#26. Everything is unknown until you discover it!

C.S. Yelle

#27. People sleep peacefully in their beds at night, because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

(By George Orwell) Describing your country's servicemen.

Steven Preece

#28. Human beings are religious animals.

Umberto Eco

#29. Since the Bible has quite a lot to say about truth - and since it also has plenty to say about how particular individuals relate to that truth - it has become easy to imagine that its claims can and should be reduced to particular, and highly relative and situational, angles of vision.

N. T. Wright

#30. Maybe if my heart stops
Beating it won't hurt this much.

Paramore

#31. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

#32. I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

John Steinbeck

#33. I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.

Tim O'Brien

#34. We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Winston Churchill

#35. I'm warning you right now, it's going to be a rough ride. If you're not ready for it yet, I'll put you on your knees for a while to take my edge off.

Tessa Bailey

#36. In spite of his clumsiness and rough manner, he was a peaceable man, of infinite kindliness and goodness of heart, always ready to be of use.

Anton Chekhov

#37. Panic is more like protection from the danger, stuff when they don't go on plan it's a code on "how much humans we are"...

Deyth Banger

#38. I brushed my hands on the pockets of my jeans, still marvelling at the fact I wasn't wearing a gown. And that I had real underwear on. It was the small things

Allison Pang