Tough Quotes

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.

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.

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 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.

When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.