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Quotes About Tough

We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.
~ Arnold Palmer
It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.
~ Rick Perry
If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.
~ Lee DeWyze
I'm sorry I bothered you, Susan. I'm just having a tough time. That's all. Have a good one, I said and walked away.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'-- Stephen Colbert
~ Stephen Colbert
He was husky, barrel-chested, and my age. The belly was a work in progress. It's the name that was important. He was part-time tough, like I said. Basically he's an accountant and works at a place downtown. He's really dead?" "Well," says Manny, "I didn't check his pulse, but he was in two pieces.
~ Stephen Dobyns
There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.
~ Jon Katz
It all came back to something I'd figured out once about the detective business. There were two ways to go along: underground or on top. I never found out which was best. Underground you had the element of surprise on your side, but it was harder to move around. On top you went everywhere, taking cracks at everybody, and everybody taking cracks at you. You had to be tough to play it that way. Well, I was tough.
~ Jonathan Latimer
The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
Missing kids are tough cases. I mean, murder is bad but at least the worst has already happened to the victim—they're not going to get any deader. Missing kids come with a literal deadline, made worse by the fact that you don't get to learn the timing until it's too late.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Moreover, even if foreign jurisdictions adopted comparably tough rules, in the absence of international coordination those rules might be inconsistent with U.S. standards,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.
~ George Osborne
Rehearsal for film is tough. Until the camera's there, everything changes.
~ Richard Jenkins
It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.
~ Neil Warnock
What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.
~ Lukas Forchhammer
We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.
~ Evan Bayh
I'm tough. I have taken on hits, I've blocked. I even got MVP for blocking one game and I didn't even touch a ball that game.
~ Marquise Goodwin
The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.
~ Jay Baruchel
Holiday shopping can be tough: sometimes you don't know what to get a person; sometimes you really do just want to help those in need.
~ Kayleen Schaefer
I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.
~ Richard Edelman
I'm not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go all day.
~ Wendy Williams
The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.
~ Franco Harris
I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.
~ Mr. T