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Quotes About Tough

Georgia has some really tough allergies.
~ Brooke Elliott
Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.
~ Roberto Firmino
It was extremely tough to leave Washington. Especially with the chemistry that we built, players getting better over there. My family and the players, our families became really close. That was tough, I ain't going to lie.
~ Trevor Ariza
My family are all Glasgow. I was born there. Govan. When it was very tough. The tenements. All that stuff.
~ Denis Lawson
Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.
~ Trent Alexander-Arnold
I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom.
~ Raveena Tandon
To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
~ Mr. T
I had severe PTSD and anxiety, but it was the '80s, and I didn't have a name for it. I don't think my mother even thought, like, 'Maybe I should take her to therapy.' I thought I could handle it because I'm tough.
~ Sara Evans
I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.
~ Powers Boothe
I've been in the entertainment industry - wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you're going to have a tough time in this town, but I've got thick skin.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
~ Danny DeVito
Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.
~ Richard Schiff
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
~ Norman Rockwell
Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.
~ Elliott Abrams
I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
~ Mark Kurlansky
If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.
~ Ross Knox
This is partly my own ego, of course. I want to be visible as tough enough to possess and defend a femme who is entrancing enough to become the object of someone else's desire, but it is equally a measure of protection for the femme in question. What if the same person sees her walking alone tomorrow?
~ S. Bear Bergman
A woman should occasionally be babied enough to show her the man had affection, but beyond that she should be treated firmly. These tough women said that it worked with them. All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength.
~ Malcolm X
I remember adapt," says Toby. "It was another way of saying tough luck. To people you weren't going to help out.
~ Margaret Atwood
sometimes you have to do hard things to your kids to do the right thing for them in the long run.
~ Anna Quindlen
That's harsh.
~ Anna Quindlen
I learned that opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads.
~ Anne Lamott
Yes, it's tough, it's tough, that goes without saying. But isn't waiting itself and longing a wonder, being played on by wind, sun, and shade?
~ Annie Dillard
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or Shay or Peris—unlike people in general—it made sense.
~ Scott Westerfeld