Tough Quotes

Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.