Tolerate Quotes - Page 19

• I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

  Shannon Hoon

  Selfish, People, Frustrated

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• Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

  Sidney Hook

  Tolerance, Hook, Limits

  Sidney Hook (1975). “Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  Emily Carr

  Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

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• There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Men, Hands

  "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents". Book by William A. DeGregorio (p. 133), 1984.

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• Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

  Kenny Loggins

  Children, Self, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

  John Lydon

  Liars, Lying, Unbearable

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Kindness, Suffering

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• It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

  Charles Ferguson

  Creating, Culture, Behaviour

  "Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis". www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, New Year, Witty

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• There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Creativity, World, Novelty

  Henry David Thoreau (1977). “The portable Thoreau”, Penguin

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• My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Book, People

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

  Walker Percy

  Age, Way, Stills

  Walker Percy (1989). “Lancelot”

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• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  Pat Robertson

  Europe, Tolerance, Bigs

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• I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

  Ron Reagan

  Party, Racist, Homophobes

  "Ron Reagan calls Iraq war unnecessary and optional". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2004.

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• It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, People, Vices

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl (1997). “The Basil and Josephine Stories”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

  Richard Marcinko

  Failure, Risk, Kind

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• I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, People, Humanity

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Laughing, Honor, Fascination

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• Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Men, Play

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• Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

  Freya North

  Stupid, Refuse, Verge

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• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Simple, People

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “On Liberty and Utilitarianism”, p.234, Bantam Classics

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• Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things - unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Dog, Heart

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• Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories.

  George W. Bush

  Conspiracy, Theory, Outrageous

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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