Top 100 Quotes About Tougher
#1. I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
#2. Things are tougher than we are, just
As earth will always respond
However we mess it about ...
Philip Larkin
#3. Everyone's pain is different," Reece went on. "I don't like when people compare. I don't like when people marginalize their feelings because they think they're not allowed to have them. Someone will always have a tougher go than you. Does that mean you're not allowed to feel hurt? To be sad?
S. Walden
#4. I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.
Daniella Alonso
#5. Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
Michael J. Fox
#6. One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
E.W. Howe
#7. The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!
Edward L. Morse
#9. The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.
Tony Dungy
#10. You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.
Katherine Rundell
#11. Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Dancing Bear
James Crumley
#12. I'm drawn to look tough. The arched eyebrows are just there - I don't do them like that. I have strong features, but I wish I could be tougher.
Eva Mendes
#14. You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.
Dawn M. Turner
#15. I've learned ... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
Andy Rooney
#16. We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
Don Meyer
#17. Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#19. Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.
Jack Nicholson
#20. I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis
#21. Do girls need kid-glove treatment? I thought they were tougher than that."
Dan's grin was approving. "Most of us are. Some of us are like boys, though, and have delicate egos.
Nora Sakavic
#23. Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are ... the process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.
Barack Obama
#24. In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
Goose Gossage
#25. I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
Hale Irwin
#26. Form up," I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, "You guys go first.
Jim Butcher
#27. Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.
Joe Eszterhas
#29. It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
Alex Rodriguez
#30. We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
Bob Filner
#31. Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#32. I've always said I'd rather see a club that's won 10 or 12 in a row than a club that's lost 10 or 12 in a row because they're tougher.
Jack McKeon
#33. Maybe just as skin on a hand grows tougher after pain in repetition, a person does too.
Veronica Roth
#34. When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.
Brian Roberts
#35. We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.
Charles R. Morris
#36. Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.
Bear Bryant
#37. I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.
Chris Noth
#38. Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.
Jai Courtney
#39. It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.
Will Packer
#40. Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.
Andy Lally
#41. I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.
David Bezmozgis
#42. It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement.
Sara Sheridan
#43. Mentally than the other guy, and you're tougher mentally because
John Grisham
#44. If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.
Barry White
#45. I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
#46. We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.
Wallace Stegner
#47. Scar tissue does more than flaunt its strength by chronicling the assaults it has withstood. Scar tissue is new growth. And it is tougher than skin innocent of the blade.
Shelley Jackson
#48. I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
Bobby Farrelly
#49. I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.
Eddie Sutton
#50. Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
Wladimir Klitschko
#51. You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that - if it's going to die, it has to die on its own
Leif Enger
#52. I like to wear less make-up and be tougher. The primp stuff is exciting for people, but it's less exciting for me. It's definitely fun, but I like low maintenance.
Maggie Q
#53. Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.
Robert A. Heinlein
#54. We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
Marty Meehan
#55. I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Karl Rove
#56. People are foolish and bad, especially the French, and are always quickly seduced by power into insanity, and therefore lucky to have any kind of social order whatsoever, but the tougher the better.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#57. Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.
Aisha Mirza
#58. You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.
Grace Coddington
#59. I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.
Don Rickles
#60. As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
Robert James Thomson
#61. One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.
Jay Leno
#62. Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.
Guy Kawasaki
#64. Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.
Elin Hilderbrand
#65. I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.
Josh Hutcherson
#66. I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
Maurice Sendak
#67. I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle ... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.
Frank Lampard
#68. It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
#69. I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.
Rose McGowan
#70. Just remember that you are tougher than any problem. Just keep putting in your best and you shall tame the beast that is the JEE.
Paras Arora
#71. Rethink Your Success Mindset: Times are getting tougher. We need tougher mindsets to ensure that we go beyond survive to thrive.
Tony Dovale
#72. What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.
Neil Cross
#73. Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
Jon Bernthal
#74. To continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.
Jack Straw
#75. It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
William Ruckelshaus
#76. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.
Alan W. Watts
#77. And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes
Nas
#78. It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
Kuno Becker
#79. And the fact that she punched that girl right in the face without a moment's hesitation? I've got to hand it to her, she's tougher than I first thought.
Colleen Hoover
#80. Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be
Carolyn Brown
#81. You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
Vince Lombardi
#82. It's okay.' I rubbed my stomach.'These abs have been known to bring down much tougher girls. I won't tell anyone you want me.
Nyrae Dawn
#83. The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
Lee Child
#84. What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.
Soichiro Honda
#85. Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.
Jay Leno
#86. Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job and your replacement wasn't as competent, they sued you for lost profits.
Max Barry
#87. Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.
Alane Ferguson
#88. I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.
Richard Drew
#90. Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
Dan Rather
#91. Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth it was true, I said it anyway: No one.
Cheryl Strayed
#92. You are tougher to kill than Steven Seagal...
Zoe Forward
#93. Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.
Terry Goodkind
#95. The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.
Maxine Kumin
#96. A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.
Shannon Hale
#98. The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
Chris Moneymaker
#99. With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
Callie Khouri
#100. Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
John Wayne
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