“I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.” KnowsKidsSchoolTakenCuttingToughTeethPretendingMilkHideousFangsAntibioticsJaundice Author:Charlize Theron
“Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.” MindLongRunningCuttingThousandToughRevengeYesterdayDullWitchLong RunsTurtles Book:Opus Maximum Source: Opus Maximum
“It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.” CommonCuttingToughAbuseInnovationRewardsFinancialCommon SenseFinancial MarketsShort Cuts Author:Barack Obama
“When fighting zombies, the only comfort one can have--if, indeed, it can be called a "comfort"--is knowing where the zombies are. "They are over there, and we are over here. When they come at us, we're going to shoot them down. That's how it's going to work. They're just zombies, and they're way over there. No way are we going to f*** this up." But when zombies then unexpectedly pop up behind you--Bam!--the whole battle plan's not so cut and dried, is it, Mr. Tough Guy?” IfsWayWholeGuyFightingBehindsKnowingCuttingPlansComfortBattleToughPopsGoing To WorkZombieBehind YouTough Guy Author:Scott Kenemore
“The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.” TwoRunningJobsNationsClassCuttingMiddleMonthsTaxesBenefitsToughPaidMiddle ClassConservatismTax CutsTwo Nations Author:Tim Montgomerie
“I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.” StillsStatesTeacherCuttingTaxesToughUnionsDemocratConservativeBudgetsBalancedGovernorsJerseyPro LifeNew JerseyBalanced Budget Author:Chris Christie
“Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.” ArtKidsSchoolActingCuttingIndustryDramaToughLots Of Money Author:Phil Daniels
“In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.” ThreeCuttingEconomicToughEcstasyTough Economic Times Author:Chelsea Handler
“Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!” LongNightLostMy OwnClearCuttingFeetMissingFieldsBrokenColdEvidenceToughTiredHungrySnowIceSmokeSeatsFuelHopelessEquipmentEmergenciesTruckTemperatureInjuredTanksCeilingsJuryHailPadsPavementHelicoptersRiggedMachetesPropane Author:Mark Mason
“Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was irresponsible with nuclear war. You might have been able to make the case that Carter was responsible. But it's very tough when you see a person with Reagan's nice-guy persona up there to believe this guy somehow wants nuclear war, that he somehow wants to antagonize the Russians into an attack. It's just not credible; it doesn't cut with what all your other senses are telling you.” WantTryingBelievePersonsHas BeensWarMightAbleGuyCasesNiceCuttingToughResponsibleNuclearDebateSensesButtonsThis GuyMight Have BeenPersonaIrresponsibleJimmyCarterNuclear WarCredibleNice Guy Author:Roger Ailes
“As far as what made it on there [The Art of Elegance record], it was tough. It's probably one or two songs too long, but I just couldn't (cut any more). That's what I ended up with. I'm really proud of it.” LongArtMadeTwoSongRecordsCuttingProudToughMade ItElegance Author:Kristin Chenoweth
“When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.” PresidentCuttingTrumpTaxesToughEconomicsTradeChinaInfrastructureManufacturingRevive Author:Judy Woodruff
“In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.” PeopleGovernmentSawsCuttingToughBillionsEnormousBetter LifeSeekersElderlyPublic HealthEuroAsylumsPensionMigrantsHollandAusterityHealth ServicesAsylum Seekers Author:Geert Wilders
“I served as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Let me tell you, it's tough to find out what the CIA is doing. They led us astray on the weapons of mass destruction that they said Saddam Hussein found. We sent out Collin Powell, Secretary of State, former National Security Counselor, chief of staff, four star general, couldn't find it out. I'd be reluctant to cut into term limits. I think if the voters would become informed and aroused, they could impose the proper limits on the guys who ought to be out.” ThinkingGuyTermCuttingSecurityToughDestructionLet MeSecretaryNational SecurityCiaWeapons Of Mass Destruction Author:Arlen Specter
“In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.” PeopleThinkingLongCountryCareValuesFightingTermDecisionCuttingTaxesToughLeavingPrioritiesHealth CareLong TermCrushBad DecisionTough Decisions Author:Barack Obama
“Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions.” ThinkingKindRealEyeDecisionInterestingCuttingHonestColdToughBubblesBrutalSentimentalNostalgicRedundantTough Decisions Author:Richard Linklater
“Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.” WorldInspirationalProblemTodayJobsStrongDecisionCuttingSecurityToughWeakManagersGlitterToday's WorldTough DecisionsMaking Tough Decisions Author:Jack Welch
“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.” PeopleMorningCuttingHavensToughCoffeePlentyThroat Book:The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition Source: The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition
“So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.” WayLooksTwoHardUseHandsPainTogetherPastSpiritMotherFightingWinningSidesBlackClearCuttingHappenedDaughterToughSkinsGoldenMy DaughterTigersPenetrateGiverMy PastMother LoveFiercenessI Will WinTough Skin Book:The Joy Luck Club Source: The Joy Luck Club
“When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.” KnowsNeedsLooksStillsBodyEyeLawTurnsNiceCuttingAliveImagineSkyMouthsToughBlueLuckSurpriseFolksIllTeethStaringWitchTailsHarvestRopeCorpsesForeheadsBlue EyesFilthyIll WillClovers Author:Margaret Atwood
“When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.” MenWorldKindEnoughFactsFacesHouseStrongLove IsBrainSituationCuttingWeekCoupleNewsSpringToughAlcoholGenuineSatGoing AwayAgonySheerSoberPalmsStrong EnoughBad NewsSober UpPalm Springs Author:Ava Gardner