Top 47 Roughest Quotes
#1. We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders
#2. I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
Jan Karon
#4. My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
Clint Eastwood
#5. Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.
Andrew Solomon
#6. The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.
Shane Filan
#7. In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
Pope Francis
#9. By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.
James Ponsoldt
#10. It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.
Aaron Paul
#11. In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.
John Charles Pollock
#12. I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple.
Curtis Sliwa
#13. Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.
Joan Crawford
#14. Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
#15. It's usually the roughest waters that teach us the most.
Robyn Carr
#16. For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
Emma Donoghue
#17. We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
Alan Furst
#18. The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.
Robert Englund
#19. The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.
Bob Weir
#20. A good teacher is someone you're willing to share your ugliest, roughest work with and who doesn't make you feel ashamed or stupid.
Felicia Day
#21. Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
The roughest waves of human destiny
Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#22. And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
Joel Coen
#23. An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
#24. I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
Ben Folds
#25. You know, the best waves to ride come from the roughest seas. Risk it.
Stephanie Evanovich
#26. A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
Thomas Carlyle
#28. The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.
R.D. Ronald
#29. You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.
John Bunyan
#30. I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.
Tommy Lee
#31. You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.
Durs Grunbein
#32. The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.
Michelle Rodriguez
#33. It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.
Eric Church
#34. The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.
Josie Maran
#36. It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there.And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
Quincy Jones
#37. Great men must go through great pain
The strongest storms
The hardest rain
The toughest climbs
The roughest terrain
Great men must go through great pain
Calvin W. Allison
#38. So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.
Elvis Presley
#39. The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier
Muhammad Ali
#40. I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#41. Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
Henry Wotton
#42. It was a smart cane. When he grabbed the handlebars it would help him stand up. It would then steady his locomotion even on the roughest terrain, adding its six legs to his two.
Neal Stephenson
#43. It was the roughest time in my life. Connie helped me through it.
Maury Povich
#44. A nurse and a social worker took fifteen minutes out of their shitty thankless job in the roughest corner of town, sat on a couple of milk crates drinking coffee, flopped their real selves out of the cement and both liked what they saw.
Laura Buzo
#45. The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.
Robert Southwell
#46. The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'
Rod Laver
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