Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. — Rene Crevel
There's something ugly about the flawless. — Dennis Lehane
[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone. — Lao Tzu
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. — Leonard Cohen
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful. — Jenny Han
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. — Confucius
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. — English Proverbs
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Chinese Proverbs
Imperfections are beautiful. They are the window into a person's complexity, depth, and character. — Lex Fridman
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. — Robert G. Ingersoll
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann
Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of. — Kathryn Kuhlman
I have really crooked teeth - they give me character! — Emma Roberts
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. — Ellen DeGeneres
Rough Edges Image Quotes
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
Sharp Edges Quotes
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. — Donald Rumsfeld
Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable. — Alex Rodriguez
There is peace even in the storm.
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last. — Charles Spurgeon
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins. — Janet Fitch
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better.
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. — Christopher Moore
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love. — Roberto Bolano
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
Roughness Quotes
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom — David Brainerd
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her. — Sayings
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
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
It's not about the end goal. It's about who you become by consistently pushing the edge of your limits.
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos
I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun. — Derrick Rose
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. — Guy de Maupassant
Rough Patches Quotes
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
The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are. — Nate Berkus
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
Write at the edges of the day.
You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things — Victoria Azarenka
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
I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think. — Ryan Reynolds
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
The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help. — Demi Lovato
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click. — Nick Lachey
Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man. — Dana White
Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. — C. S. Lewis
When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl. — Erin Wasson
A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life. — Deborah Norville
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. — Doug Larson
I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl. — Erin Wasson
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges. — Sayings
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us. — Joel Osteen
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year. — Marcus Buckingham
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us. — Eknath Easwaran
To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience. — Harriet Rubin
I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence. — Ian MacKaye
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat. — Jane Fonda
I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad. — Sarah Palin
By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing." — Terry Crews
I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges. — Rainn Wilson
This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges. — Anne Wilkes Tucker
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it. — Annie Dillard
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group. — Roger Daltrey
In the media's eyes Bannon made Trump. Trump is too dumb to have made himself. Trump is too rough around the edges. Trump is not a deep enough thinker, and he's not nearly a brilliant strategist. Trump couldn't have gotten himself elected. That's what they all think. Bannon did that. — Rush Limbaugh
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life. — Brian K. Vaughan
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing. — Cory Doctorow
I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real. — Cinda Williams Chima
When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. — Joel Osteen
I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that. — Carrie-Anne Moss
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. — Jane Fonda
Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer. — Simon Sinek
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life. — Agnes Repplier
I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing. — Tyson Chandler
There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would. — Andrew Bujalski
We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me. — Lynn Shelton
Cutting edges are always a little rough. — Rosalie Maggio
With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal. — Drew Goddard
I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends. — Justin Bieber
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see. — Frederick Lenz
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again. — Charles Spurgeon
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed. — Amy Harmon
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. — Sam Taylor-Wood
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