Tough Quotes

We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.

My mom is really tough.

I've always considered myself a feminist, which is such a tough word for people. Some people immediately assume that you're angry or you hate men, which is obviously not true.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.

I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.

It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

New York is tough on lonely people.

As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.