Tolerate Quotes - Page 7

• You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

  Imre Kertész

  Country, Lying, Deception

  "Liquidation" by Imre Kertész, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2004.

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• His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Space, Long, Gone

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Way, Circumstances, Findings

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.61, Anchor

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• You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

  Max Lucado

  Baby, Self, Boss

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Men, Rude

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• Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Men, Player

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• One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

  Sylvia Day

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

  Naomi Novik

  Son, Giving, Heaven

  Naomi Novik (2006). “Throne of Jade: A Novel of Temeraire”, p.60, Del Rey

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• I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

  Nora Roberts

  Horizontal, Vertical, I Can

  Nora Roberts (2013). “Nora Roberts' MacGregors Collection:”, p.699, Penguin

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, People, Forgiving

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

  Tahir Shah

  Mind, Weakness, Body

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.226, Lulu.com

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• I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Hate, Listening, Criticism

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• I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Loss, Dark, Years

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Tired, Fighting

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• I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Technique, Depth

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 06, 2013

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• And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Respect, Believe

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• The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Eye, Winning, Way

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• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Rain, Anger

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  Robert Frost

  Crazy, Mad, Society

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• You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

  Larry Flynt

  Able

  "Publisher Larry Flynt". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Punishment

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.

  George Smathers

  People, States, Treason

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