Tough Quotes - page 5

"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else. (Noam Chomsky)

When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

Sergey Brin

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

Barbara Stanwyck

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

Tony Blair

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

Fred Allen

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.

John F. Kennedy

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

Martha Beck

Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.

Mindy Kaling

It's tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won't be able to deal with it.

Ned Vizzini

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, "the Irish of Asia." (P. J. O'Rourke)

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

Andrew Solomon

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Scott Westerfeld

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Tamara Mellon

There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

Tamara Mellon

My light shines when things get really tough.

Tippi Hedren

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Walter Jon Williams

I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

F. W. de Klerk

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

Hermann Maier

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. (Shaquille O'Neal)

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

Charlaine Harris

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

Shia LaBeouf

He's a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn't end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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