Tough Quotes - Page 26

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

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.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

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.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

You hear about all the great British thespians doing stuff on the West End and that kind of thing, and I missed out on that. Alan Rickman actually suggested to me that I should try it. And I thought, "Geez, I really don't want to do that." But he must have recommended it for a reason, so when an opportunity came up, I took it. And it was tough. It was hard! But by the end of it, I absolutely loved it.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

I think the asset management industry, especially in the US, is going through a pretty tough time. If you talk to the CEO of a US asset manager, morale would be at a low, even though stock markets are at almost record levels.

Divorce is not an issue. That's people's lives! So, I don't like to be too puffed up about the importance of family. It's going to be tough and it changes as time goes by. I don't know. I just don't think it should be made an issue.

It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

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.

Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.