Tough Quotes

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

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 wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington.'

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

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

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.