William Allen White Quotes

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

William Allen White

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• Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Together
  • Law

• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Should
  • Presidential
  • Vegas

• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diversity

• I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Husband

• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Tired
  • Weakness
  • Boils

• My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Weakness
  • Too Much
  • Leopard

• In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Should
  • Made
  • News

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Never
  • Should
  • Sanctioned

• We should have more invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Should
  • More
  • Invention

• 'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Society
  • Tolerance

• I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Education
  • Should
  • System

• People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

  

  Carl Olson
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Forever
  • Should
  • Helping

• Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

  

  Todd English
  • Should
  • Characteristics
  • Chickens

• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

  

  Richard Russo
  • People
  • Should
  • Anything

• She kisses the children goodnight, leaving lipstick on their foreheads and a trail of Chanel No.5.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Children
  • Lipstick
  • Kisses

• Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

  

  William Allen White
  • Should
  • Tolerance
  • Weakness