Sayings About Tough Luck

#1. Ultimately, if you're not doing what you love, you're not going to be fulfilled. Sure, to make money, you have to be tough, you have to have some smarts and a little luck would help, but the bottom line is: You have to love what you do.

Donald Trump

#2. I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

Thomas Naylor

#3. Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'

Timothy Noah

#4. If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

Paul LePage

#5. Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

Marty Rubin

#6. Robust activity on one site is so much better than halfhearted activity on multiple sites.

Michelle Phan

#7. Aw, I'm like a proud mother bird watching my daughter fly from the nest. Fly, little bird, fly. Oh no! Don't fall. No, that's the ground. Addie, watch out for the ground. Man, tough luck. You'd better come back home.

Kasie West

#8. Tracer was a good guy, but Ruthie didn't understand how one individual could smoke the amount of pot he did and still function.

Jennifer McMahon

#9. Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

W.C. Fields

#10. Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

Barack Obama

#11. Stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.

Esther Hicks

#12. If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

Philip Pullman

#13. Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.

David Amerland

#14. If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.

Christopher Moore

#15. I remember adapt," says Toby. "It was another way of saying tough luck. To people you weren't going to help out.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

Lev L. Spiro

#17. The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

Warren Spahn

#18. When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

Flannery O'Connor

#19. [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep - good sleep, and enough of it - this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.

Edward Everett Hale

#20. What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.

Ilona Andrews

#21. We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

Alain Vigneault

#22. Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

Julie Kagawa

#23. If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

Clive Thompson