tough

Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.

You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball.

A man's level of "toughness" (as assessed by other men), will determine whether or not his girlfriend will get hit on by other guys right in front of him in public places. If you're deemed a "p*#%y" by other guys and they want your girlfriend, even in your company she'll be considered "fair game".

Both men and women experience pressure to conform to social standards of attractiveness. Men to look strong and be tough, women to look pretty and soft. Men to be masculine, women to be feminine. Men get judged for being "too feminine", women get criticized for being "too masculine". Gender policing affects us all.

To every guy who tries to say that we have already achieved equality for the sexes, if this were true, you wouldn't be told to "man up", "be a man", "stop being a p*#%y", "harden the fuck up", "toughen up", "boys don't cry", "don't be such a girl", "stop being a wimp". As long as this type of language still exists in our society, then gender equality, my friends, has in fact not been achieved after all.

Language and reality are kept strictly apart__eality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn__ care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn__.

I__ all you have in this world Mariam, and when I__ gone you__l have nothing. You ARE nothing!

The decisions that take you to your highest points in life are the toughest decisions you'd have to make.

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.

When the tough get going, the going gets easier.

Nothing is tough but your skull so think out of the skull box and let the thoughts fly.

No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.

The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.