Tough Quotes - Page 18

• For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

  Whitey Herzog

  Smart, Book, Sometimes

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• It's good to see a kid that
  young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

  Jorge Posada

  Kids, Young

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Organization, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

  Ehud Olmert

  Leadership, Decision, Trying

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• Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

  Mike Oldfield

  Love, Kings, Men

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• The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  People, Vices, Doe

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

  Cal Hubbard

  Jobs, Book, Umpires

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• We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

  Charlie Munger

  Focus, Special, Investing

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

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Worst, Difficult

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• Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  School, Men, Rights

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• It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, Trying, President

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• Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Boys, Champion, Machines

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• You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Female, Congress, Members

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling.

  Albert Belle

  Winning, Awards, Mvp

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• Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

  Michael Jai White

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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  When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Get Up

  Remarks by the President on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 15, 2014.

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• The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Memories, Party

  Barack Obama's remarks during Joint Press Conference with Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 17, 2015.

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• Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
  squandering your unquoted mirth,
  which keeps the ground, and never soars,
  while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
  tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
  goes like bullet to its mark;
  while the solid curse and jeer
  never balk the waiting ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Waiting, Jake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103

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• We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Children, Teenage, Responsibility

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• The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

  Luke Donald

  Success, Past, Thinking

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• It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.

  John Boehner

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  "Obama administration claims Iran deal a ‘forever agreement,’ despite expiration dates". www.foxnews.com. April 06, 2015.

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• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.

  Sam Kinison

  Able, Faces, Wells

  "Have You Seen Me Lately?". "Parties With the Dead", 1988.

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• Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

  Gary Busey

  Boys, Want, Planets

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