“2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.” YearsStatesDoneShowsGovernmentTogetherNationsCommunityChallengesToughCrisisUnionsRoseFinancialLocalsAustraliaWorking TogetherTerritoryPersuasionFinancial CrisisLocal CommunityLocal Business Author:Kevin Rudd
“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.” NeedsSaidCommunityEconomyProgressMastersHabitToughUltimateInfiniteVictimSeriesConservativeObjectivesHouseholdCunningMiraculousThrustRansom Author:Richard M. Weaver
“In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.” IfsWorldWantBelieveMeanRealEnoughTogetherLawI BelieveNationsCommunityBreakViolenceMetsBehaviorToughPressureInternationalAlternativesLastingRegimesSanctionsInternational CommunityTogether As One Author:Barack Obama
“I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldRealFightingLostCan DoCommunityNovelReaderHorrorToughConcernedAppreciateSuspenseTiesShoutingThrillersTrenchesGood FightRooftopsDownturnSuspense NovelsFight The Good FightLost Respect Author:Bentley Little
“I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.” WantDifferentCommunityLinesNumbersBusinessEnvironmentBenefitsToughBottomFinancialShopsEmployeeDistributionBottom LineOur CommunityYardsticksBusiness Environment Author:Anita Roddick
“I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.” LittlesEndsShowsHomeSongThreeCommunityPrayerEventsTrainingToughBeltsVocal Author:Naomi Scott
“I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBeautifulWishStuffCommunityGoneRegretToughGreat People Author:Lemon Andersen
“New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.” PeopleFeelsTryingMomentsCausesDifficultCommunityDiseaseAnxietyBirdToughWorriedFluVery SadDifficult MomentsSarsBird Flu Author:Margaret Chan
“If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.” IfsWantLittlesActorsStarsCan DoCommunityActingToughTheaterConnectedYou Can Do ItMovie Star Author:Alan Arkin
“Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.” MeanCountryPurposeChoicesCommunityCitizensToughDeliberationTough ChoicesPurpose And Direction Author:F. David Mathews
“Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.” IfsKindAmericaRememberSpiritEasyDifficultCommunityCommonDestinyShareIllusionToughDifficultyHarmonyNational Community Author:Barbara Jordan
“It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.” WantBelieveMightFightingEasyCommunityCareersBattleCostToughColleaguesConstituentsStand For Something Author:Caroline Kennedy
“The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".” WorldHelpingShowsCommunityHappenedDoorsToughWelcomeTragicBroadwayShow Business Author:Lorna Luft
“We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.” PeopleMenSchoolFunCommunityBandToughInspiredHaving FunEducatorPlaying MusicLarrySchool Band Author:Jon Gordon
“Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.” PeopleMenGivingYearsTwoWinningCommunityMy OwnCarClothesTrainingToughFortunateTwo YearsPastorContestsOwn BusinessLess FortunateMinding My Own BusinessTough Man Author:Mr. T
“It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with Russia to get them engaged in a community of nations to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons without firing a shot. She's not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy. But she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world, and we ought to have a commander-in-chief who is prepared and done it, rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader.” WorldDoneGuyCommunityChallengesLeaderToughPraiseClintonNuclear WeaponsGreat LeaderIranianNew StartGreat Guy Author:Tim Kaine
“It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities for writers to be in a writers' room and work their way up. It's somewhat easier because there's more of a community. There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.” KindDifferentOpportunityEnjoyCommunityAudienceToughIncrediblesWeekendTough Times Author:Callie Khouri
“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.” PeopleIfsDoneUseGovernmentSufferingEnergyLeftCommunityBehindsSkillsToughLeft BehindTough TimesThings DoneOur CommunityManchester Author:Lucy Powell
“Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.” PeopleMenAmericaCommunityProgressMen And WomenToughMajoritySouthExpectedHungryInequalityLatinAsiaTough TimesLatin AmericaHolding BackSouth AsiaRural Communities Author:Dionne Warwick
“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.” PeopleLongWholeHomeWould BeTodayLawYoungPoliticalOrderSocialCommunityLeaderPracticeSupportImagineStreetsAchieveSecurityCrimeBenefitsToughResourcesCriticismLonelyRaisesThreatViolentVulnerableSuspectsScarRhetoricShut UpCultBullySocial SecurityElderlyLaw And OrderPolitical LeadersMatchedSocial ServicePredatoryYoung Life Author:Margaret Thatcher
“My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.” WellsCareKidsYoungDeathHouseLostCommunityNew YorkHusbandSixToughRaisedRanGrandmaMiningMinersUpstate New YorkUranium MiningBoarding HouseTough Lady Author:Steve Carell
“If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.” IfsWorldKindHardCommunitySocietyThis WorldDeserveTough Author:Raymond Chandler