Best 628 quotes in «tough quotes» category

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

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)

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.

Someone asked me the other day, "Oh your story is like Cameron Crowe's, he has the same thing of having been a teenage journalist," but he was a guy and you just add gender into the mix, it's a 16-year-old girl with adults and rock stars, and it's tough.

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

[Steven Spielberg makes] human movies. Movies [...] that reflect the life we wish it would be, not necessarily as it is. And the happy ending, you know. Life is a tough thing to begin with, and I like the happy ending.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH EVERY MORNING; SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEALTH. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNBELIEVABLY TOUGH.

Talking with Ken Shamrock was almost a one-way conversation. I knew Ken was a tough guy, one of the toughest in the world at one time and still tough as nails. I had heard he had a tough background, but there are two times in that interview when I teared up. I'm "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and I didn't cry, but I teared up. Ken saw me, and he almost started tearing up, too. I'd never experienced anything like that. To hear some of the things that he went through, my jaw was on the floor.

Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

The Barack Obama administration had been negotiating with the Canadians to come up with a permanent solution on lumber tariff. And they failed. And so even though this is being portrayed as the first salvo by Donald Trump's tough trade regime, in fact, it's quite possible that, if Hillary Clinton were president, we would be in the same place.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

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.

The endorsement was a really gracious statement. I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator [Ted] Cruz. We have fought the battle and he was a tough and brilliant opponent.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work.

The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

There are many reasons why the Russians prefer Donald Trump.I think, in the first instance, they wanted to tear down Secretary Clinton. They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

There's always the things that you think are going to be tough. I've been nude once, and I was like, "Oh, that's going to be a nightmare," and actually that was fine.

There is so little time on a set to build up a working relationship with a new member of crew. It is tough to be polite, especially in an extreme location where we will not get a second chance to get the scene. It is such a stressful process that I like to work with people I know and can trust.