Tough Quotes - page 56

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution. (Alex Steffen)
We've got a quarterback who comes in off the bench and leads us to a victory, and they boo [Rex Grossman] right out of the gate," Poor guy. Lucky for him he's resilient and he came back and led us to two scoring drives. But man, it's tough. View quote
Brian Urlacher
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are. View quote
Warren Buffett
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough. View quote
Zaha Hadid
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician. View quote
Dick Cheney
The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. View quote
Sally Ride
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think. View quote
Brené Brown
We've got an awful lot to talk about this week, including the sexual harassment suit against the President. Of course, in that one, it's a little tough to figure out who's really being harassed. View quote
Bryant Gumbel
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough. View quote
Harvey Mackay
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. (Guy Kawasaki)
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. View quote
Bill Gates
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. View quote
Bill Gates
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. View quote
Bill Gates
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. View quote
Bill Gates
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing? View quote
Victor Hugo
To make tomorrow better we must realize tough realities today, to understand the necessity for renunciation. View quote
Wojciech Jaruzelski
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. View quote
Eminem
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. View quote
Nate Silver
Mark: Lucky last. We haven't given you an easy time, have we? We haven't actually affirmed you... I know Marcia has. Marcia's really been your supporter, hasn't she. I know Dicko and I have really given you a kinda tough time. But you're still here. You're definitely growing on me. I'm still a bit concerned about the sort of cabaret aspects of the way you present yourself, but gee, the way you're singing is really, really, really, really fine. View quote
Hayley Jensen
Dicko: Hayley, hair looks great by the way. Curls are good for you. I've got to say, look, I don't think you're a natural at this. You have to work really hard at everything you do and it's pleasing to see the way you're moving in the right direction. I think that was a really tough song to chose. Some of those timings in there, it was a bit like a maths exam at times for me trying to keep up. But I think it's a really good style for you. That type of song. That type of artist, George as well. The only problem I have with you, I've had it for the past few weeks, is I can see you concentrating and I can hear you thinking about what you're trying to do as you're doing it and I don't know. Sometimes I just think if you could switch all of that off and just let yourself go a bit I think you'd be a lot better for it. But that was very good. (Hayley Jensen)
It's really, really tough because you have to be honest with the American public and you don't want to scare the hell out of them. And then other times, in attempts to calm people down, [leaders] have had people be complacent about it. This is particularly problematic in a ‘gotcha” town like Washington. View quote
Anthony Fauci
We must be united on the outside front. Even during a parliamentary campaign, even when we have very tough political confrontations within the country. View quote
Petro Poroshenko
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. View quote
Robert Redford
To win a championship, you've got to have a nucleus of five or six real tough, hard competitors. To win anything, the team's got to think tough and that infiltrates into the individual. You've got to have a tough leader. View quote
Jack Gibson