Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. – Dave Barry
The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn’t no punk. – Deontay Wilder
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic. – Gary Hume
It is always tough to win every booth right across the electorate because there are different issues in different parts of the electorate. – Denis Napthine
When you gotta go through something tough, I’ve always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way. – Paul Pierce
If we were really tough on crime, we’d do more to stop it from happening in the first place. – Carrie P. Meek
My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it’s tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful. – Myron Scholes
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary. – Paul Harvey
If we were really tough on crime, we’d try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. – Carrie P. Meek
One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors. – Patty Duke
‘Seven Turns’ was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up. – Dickey Betts
The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues. – Chuck Todd
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. – Dennis Prager
Even though ‘SmackDown’ has been kind of like the Internet darling, I believe that if they had three hours instead of two, they would find out that it’s tough to be a darling when you’ve got that massive three-hour anchor around your neck. – Mick Foley
The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. – Elliott Abrams
Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress. – Mike Ross
Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture. – Pete Hamill