Rough Patch Quotes

#1. Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

Suze Orman

#2. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Sarah Jio

#3. An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. One rough patch is not the big picture.

Ellen DeGeneres

#5. When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

Ann Coulter

#6. It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

Ida B. Wells

#7. I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

Matty Mullins

#8. Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

Graydon Carter

#9. The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.

Demi Lovato

#10. We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.

Uday Kiran

#11. Oh Jake, my love for you doesn't stop just because there's a rough patch in the road, or I don't get what I want.

Katie Ashley

#12. When we're going through a rough patch, if we stay centered and stay out of fear, we can come out the other side wiser, stronger and better.

Joan Pillen

#13. If there was just a little more time, or a little more money, or if you could just get through this one last rough patch, it would all be clear, it would all fall into place. It's an insatiable trap. And

Anna Kendrick

#14. On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate
Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.

Justin Halpern

#15. Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you? -Aphrodite

Rick Riordan

#16. Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Fred Upton

#17. I can't go back through time and change things, but I can move forward and create the life I want.

Jessica Sorensen

#18. He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#20. You're crazy. You're impossible."
"I'm crazy?"
He tipped my chin up and planted a quick, rough kiss on my mouth. "And I must be crazy for putting up with it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#21. Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.

Leonard Ravenhill

#22. I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

Laura Whitcomb

#23. DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.

ASAP Ferg

#24. I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

Kim Wilde

#25. Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. 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.

Beatrix Potter

#27. 'You came to mean more and more to me, and I could no sooner have turned away from you than stop the earth spinning. I thought, if this ends with me broken, so be it. But as every day passed, I thought: he won't break me, he loves me and one day, he'll tell me. But you didn't because you don't.'

Barbara Elsborg

#28. Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?" He gaped down. "Oh, come on!

Kresley Cole

#29. Golf ... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

P.G. Wodehouse

#30. We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

P. J. O'Rourke

#31. Discipline is remembering what you want.

David Campbell

#32. Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Gustav Mahler

#33. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Vikrmn