#tough

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

#day #easier #finished #get #going

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#because #fragile #inside #men #most

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#deal #had #last #last year #measure

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#death #drink #especially #ex-wife #had

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#best #czech #czech republic #fans #ghana

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#deny #ever #get #guy #i

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad. ↗

— Phyllis George

#between #broad #fine #fine line #innocent

Peter Llewelyn Davies: This is absurd. It's just a dog. J.M. Barrie: Just a dog? *Just*? [to Porthos] J.M. Barrie: Porthos, don't listen! [to Peter] J.M. Barrie: Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's *just* a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying, "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock." Just. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#toughts #dreams

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash