Source: The Rules of Attraction
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”
“In other words, when the going get tough, the tough get going.”
Gaby Holland, Chapter 10, p. 115
2000s, The Choice (2007)
“When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)
“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you”
White House suggests US may still accept Australia refugees despite clash https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/donald-trump-australia-refugees-malcolm-turnbull-phone-call (2 February 2017)
2010s, 2017, February
“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”
Source: Love the One You're With
“If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.”
Asking his fellow Senators to support a joint resolution opposing President George W. Bush's troop deployment plan, Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile, The Washington Post, 26 January 2007, 2007-01-29 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502086_2.html,
2007
Bluebird
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Context: there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
... I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
... he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
... and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
