Rugged Quotes

“Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. "Rugged land for a rugged man.”

“It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.”

“He wasn't like those handsome men you see on the fashion billboards. He was handsome in a rugged way like a wood cutter with an unkept beard or a man who just finished fixing the engine of his car, wiping his oily hands over his white flannel shirt. Like a man who knows that he has starry eyes that can bring stars closer but doesn't even bother to look.”

“I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.”

“...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.”

“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”

“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”

“No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas.”

“There are no smooth paths to success. You have to straighten many rugged roads and scale numerous walls for the ultimate triumph.”