Quotes About Tough

The loss of my dad gave me a lot of inspiration because sometimes I stop and think, 'Would everybody have done the same thing that I did?' It was a very tough thing to cope with. I only went home for less than 24 hours.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

This industry is tough on relationships. I've always thought that my wife should have a credit up alongside mine because I couldn't do what I do without her support.

I totally enjoyed playing in Australia. I think they play very tough cricket, and the brand of cricket they play is very strong.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

Daddy was never ruthless but he was tough.

There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

I must say I'm a bit more daunted about changing a nappy than I am making a tackle... unless it's Ngani Laumape or Ben Lam.

Lacking a dominant big man is a tall order.

it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

have I heard that grief softens the mind, and makes it fearful and degenerate; think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.'" Veronica wasn't sure which play the quote was from, but she knew exactly what it meant: You get tough. You get even. You get tough. Had Mars Investigations been the sort of outfit that bothered to draft a list of its "Core Values," that would've been a top fiver.

Is he any good?" Susan said. "DeSpain. Yeah. He's a good cop. Very tough cop." "Too tough?" "Some people thought so," I said. "Tougher than you?" "Never a horse that couldn't be rode, little lady. Never a rider that couldn't be throwed." "Good heavens," Susan said. "Does that mean he might be?" "Means maybe we'll find out some day," I said.

I'll be there in five." Eight minutes later I parked in the parking garage, climbed the four flights to my floor, and walked down the hall. The building has an elevator, but tough guys climbed stairs. Picture me bristling with manliness. Also, impatience. Cindy's door was closed. The door to the little insurance agency across from my office was closed. My door was open.

with the Piedmont PD. He didn't talk about the war much, but he'd been in some shit, Hanson could tell. "Hanson, you got some kind of death wish. You're

I'm a pixy, Rachel. I may look all tough and stuff, but I got wings, and I know infatuation when I see it.

They were just like the Swiss on Mars, like Jurgen and Max and Priska and Sibilla, with their sense of order, of appropriate action well performed, with a tough unsentimental love of comfort, of predictable decency.

I could run, too, but my feet hurt. It's tough being a fashion vixen.

Scottish men are . . . hardy?

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.