Tough Quotes

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?

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15 straight months of job gains, cut taxes 26 times, and focused like a laser on getting the middle class back on its feet while those campaigning to replace him have failed to show they can lead on these issues.

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.