David Romtvedt Quotes

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

David Romtvedt

• Judgment
• Tolerance
• Consensus
• Withholding

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• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• 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

• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Behavior

• 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

• Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Practice

• We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Wish
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• 'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Strong
  • Understanding
  • Diversity

• The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Tolerance

• The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Good
  • American
  • Tolerance

• My marriage is far from perfect. We're not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other's night-time idiosyncrasies.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Time
  • Night
  • Perfect

• I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

  

  Frank Knox
  • True
  • Today
  • Quality

• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Truth
  • Evil
  • Attitude

• Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Tolerance
  • Assumption
  • Superiority

• There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Consensus
  • Negotiations
  • Powerless

• You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Question
  • Judgment
  • Views

• When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Tolerance

• I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Control
  • Tolerance
  • Sympathy

• We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Real
  • Friend

• Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Swaraj
  • Prosecution

• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

  

  Eda LeShan
  • Love
  • Change
  • Behavior

• If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Trained
  • Metaphysics

• Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • World
  • Bed
  • This World

• There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

  

  David Romtvedt
  • Judgment
  • Tolerance
  • Consensus