Tolerate Quotes - Page 11

• The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means - and the numbers of failing states are increasing. This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man's land. After 9/11, George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Mean, Promise

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Sexy, Witty, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.

  Amma Asante

  Mean, Appreciate, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Player, Thinking, Long

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

  John Mortimer

  Strong, Exclamation Marks, Imagination

  John Mortimer's remarks in defense of record shop proprietor Christopher Seale against obscenity charges for displaying advertisements for Sex Pistols' LP "Never Mind the Bollocks" at Nottingham Magistrates Court, November 14, 1977.

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• If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.

  Noam Chomsky

  Successful, Roots, Democracy

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

  Sandra Bullock

  Girl, Growing Up, Wind

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• Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Hate, Taken

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• Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Names, Bully, Culture

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• Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thirty, Seconds, Amount

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• Me and my friends, we do this little two-finger-on-two-finger thing when we talk to each other, because we're Twitterholics. Maybe #acceptance. I feel like we pay a lot of attention to the word "tolerance," and I don't really like it. I get it, but I don't need you to tolerate this. It is. When you accept something, it's much deeper.

  Rosario Dawson

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Attention

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.

  Richard Carrier

  Ideas, People, Suffering

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• Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Laughing, Unattractive

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• So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but actually respect them for those beliefs? Because nothing less than that will do. It can’t. Simply tolerating someone who believes differently than we do isn’t enough. “Accepting” them isn’t enough. Having true and abiding peace with them means loving them. And that means respecting them. Because love without respect isn’t real love at all. It’s at best condescending patronization.

  John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

  Real, Believe, Mean

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• You have a personal legend to fulfil, period. It is of no matter if others support you, or criticise you, ignore or tolerate you. You are doing that because that is your destiny on this earth, and the source of any joy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Support You, Joy

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• I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

  Keith Jarrett

  Ideas, Musical, Keyboards

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• Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Priorities, Growing, Path

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• Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

  David Cross

  Talking, Cnn, Long

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle / WireTap, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

  Dolly Parton

  Family

  Song: Family, Album: Eagle When She Flies

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• Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Children, Hatred, Church

  "Cardinal Dolan Responds to My Open Letter" by Carl Siciliano, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

  William Greider

  Distance, Reality, Principles

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• Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

  Jim Yong Kim

  Goal, Care, Execution

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• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

  Karen Horney

  Love, Loneliness, Bridges

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

  Amy Poehler

  School, Hands, Want

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• When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

  Bill Maher

  Intolerance

  "Bill Maher Smacks Down Tavis Smiley". www.newsbusters.org. February 19, 2011.

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