Top 1200 Tough Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.

It's a tough journey as an actor in Los Angeles.

I'm in a tough division and I want to show I'm the best in it.

What's tough is being good every day.

America is a hardheaded place. It's tough to be different here.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.

Nothing is given in the Premier League, and it is tough for spots.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.

I have this tough exterior, but inside, I'm very mushy and soft.

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

It's tough to leave one of the greatest clubs in the world.

Some families out there have unimaginably tough lives.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

It's tough for some families throughout the year and during the holidays.

The film industry is a tough place to survive.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

Being a divorcee and single is very tough for me.

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

The training camps are tough, going through that.

The Capitol Police have a very tough job.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

My father made me very tough.

You don't know how to take losses. It's tough.

I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.

I don't know if people understand - losing is tough.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

During the years of my presidency, I lived a tough and difficult life.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to your vision and you're true to yourself, it kind of works. I mean, it's tough. It's a big Fitzcarraldo journey, but then you'll have your good karma at the end of the day. You'll have your good soul. You know, if you start to sell little bits of it, you, you become nothing and nobody, and you don't have any vision remaining.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

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

I guess I just have really tough skin.

I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.

People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

The triangle is a tough offense to get used to.

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.

I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing; the things you refuse to do; the things you fail to do; the things you say, as well as the things you don't say.

Wrestlers from Japan and Canada are very tough.

He’s a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

Champions League is a very tough competition.

It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

I went to bikram yoga once, it was fun, but boy was it tough.