Rugged Quotations

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look.

Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them.

Through our strong strategic customer relationships, we've learned that portable consumer storage markets not only require a very small and thin form-factor, but they also require low power storage solutions rugged enough to meet the stringent consumer usability requirements.

The moon is very rugged.

She was instrumental in breaking their full-court pressure. It was a rugged game and a major defensive battle.

Please say something about how much we appreciate the cooperation of the sheriff's office, the search and rescue teams and all the volunteers. I'd come home at night, but I spent two weeks up there. It's a rugged area.

But for me, I prefer to play the more rugged character because it's more real. ... More people can relate to those types of characters, and I like to be able to relate to everybody.

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land.

I think we'll come out of this with unique technology and units that we can test in the lava tube caves here. We've already done some testing to look at the size of the units and how they would bounce on a rugged surface.

I think that Kyle is a very good player. He's a rugged player. The guy always goes all out.

I was glad to be coming home. It was more rugged than usual storm duty. We usually stay in a motel, but the first two nights, we slept on the floor in the National Guard Armory. Then they got us some air mattresses, and that was better.

You keep going back and forth, saying what are we missing? It?s huge country, it?s rugged country. That all plays on your mind.

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism

We're not out to turn rugged straight guys into weenies who paint their fingernails.

We've completed what we consider a very challenging and demanding schedule. With the games we have set up during the non-conference portion of our schedule, we feel it gives our players an opportunity to gain valuable experience before facing the rugged Big 12 Conference.

We've completed what we consider a very challenging and demanding schedule, ... With the games we have set up during the non-conference portion of our schedule, we feel it gives our players an opportunity to gain valuable experience before facing the rugged Big 12 Conference.

We had a tough week. We needed a win ... You don't like to talk about these things like they're cancer treatment or heart surgery, but in our little world, it was very important. It would've been a rugged trip home.

With its powerful engine, rugged frame and innovative utility systems, the Nissan Titan provides a great foundation for developing special concept editions such as the Titan Onyx. We know that there are buyers looking for more attitude, presence and upscale appearance - trucks that, like this Onyx Concept, offer distinction from other vehicles on the road.

Fires can do anything. It's still a ways away from Palm Springs at this point. What I think is more at risk is that the fire will get established in rugged terrain and we will spend a long time and a lot of resources putting it out.

And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

The Scientific unit has tremendous potential for growth as we are entering new markets with some of the best technology available. The products we develop for Homeland Security and the Military have to be simple to use, rugged and provide timely answers rather than data. The scientific community is looking for this same type of efficient performance from their analytical instruments and Smiths Detection Scientific is using its experience in adjacent markets to fill that need.

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

Despite ground fog that obscures part of the surface in these images, we can see much more surface detail than we've ever seen before, which suggests that the 75-degree south latitude landing zone is quite a bit more rugged and geologically diverse than we had previously thought.

That very rugged stuff. There is a guy on our team who actually calls this the geologic promised land. I don't know if it's going to turn out to be that good or not and I don't know if we'll ever get there, but it certainly looks interesting.

Young is rugged for a freshman. He set screens we couldn't get around.

This is not a place for weaklings or the faint of heart. It's a rugged part of the business.

A lot of terrain is so rugged and dense with foliage you wouldn't think about taking your family to those areas. It's amazing how much work these Mexicans put in to get a crop out.

They gave him words of confidence and reassurance, but he's a rugged man.

They are purely a symbol of rugged individualism. They're a symbol of power but instead of being military, you are free to ride off into the sunset.

This move enabled us to free up cap room, acquire valuable allocation money and add a experienced and rugged forward to our roster.

They're a terrific team. When we had a chance to really make a run at them in the first half, they hit some 15-footers. You've got to give them credit. They knocked the shots down. It was a rugged game.

It was a very rugged basketball game for long stretches. Bodies flying everywhere ... a lot of fouls ... but we kept our poise at the end. We played good enough defensively at the end of the game to win.

It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.

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It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

It was more rugged than I had anticipated,

I'm expecting a tougher, much rugged Game 2 but the key in the series is rebounding.

By alpine I mean that the gear is viable for ski mountaineering and touring in mountains as rugged as the Alps, or Alaska, or Canada.

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

He's obviously a very rugged and tough inside guy who can score.

The guy guarding (Kaiser) had three fouls. He's not a rugged post defender. We figured, get it in there, maybe he'll get his fourth. He (Kaiser) is a great shooter. During that span, he got six points and an assist. That's great for Steve. He's done everything we've asked. Fortunately for him, he was able to get a couple of tough baskets.

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

The concerns we have looking on out there is that it's really rugged and it's going to be difficult to get crews in there safely.

The dirtier you are, the tougher you are. Men want to prove they're the toughest, most rugged creatures out there.