Tolerate Quotes

• We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • World
  • War
  • Acting

• I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed weaknesses as much as they are running from something they can't tolerate in their spouse.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Running
  • Weakness
  • Partners

• It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Stupid
  • Turns
  • Tolerate

• A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate.

  

  Candace Gingrich
  • Dog
  • Tolerate

• Art does not tolerate reason.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Tolerate

• I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Enough
  • Tolerate
  • Venture

• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Atheist

• If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

  

  Arthur Japin
  • Accept
  • Tolerate
  • Inconvenience

• Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Humanity
  • Adversity
  • Tolerate

• Will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Policy
  • Return
  • Repression

• I won't tolerate lying.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Lying
  • Tolerate

• If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

  

  Georges Courteline
  • Tolerate
  • Permit
  • Unbearable

• I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Behavior
  • I Hate
  • Tolerate

• At those moments I saw myself suddenly for what I was: a slave, willing to always do what he wanted, careful not to exaggerate in order not to get him in trouble, not to displease him. I wasted my time cooking for him, washing the dirty clothes he left in the house, listening to all his troubles at the university and in the many responsibilities that he was accumulating, thanks to the aura of good feeling that surrounded him and the small powers of his father-in-law; I always welcomed him joyfully, I wanted him to be happier with me than in the other house, I wanted him to relax, to confide, I felt sorry that he was continuously overwhelmed by obligations; I even wondered if Eleonora might love him more than I did, since she accepted every insult just to feel that he was still hers. But sometimes I couldn’t stand it anymore and I yelled at him, despite the risk that the girls might hear: Who am I for you, tell me why I’m in this city, why I wait for you every night, why I tolerate this situation.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Father
  • Risk
  • Trouble

• The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • World
  • Tolerate
  • Vices

• Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Invisible
  • Surround
  • Touching

• Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind of academic stuff for [so long].

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Fight
  • Critics
  • Academic

• Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.

  

  Bono U2
  • Jesus
  • Christians
  • Tolerate

• I know what it feels like to be bullied, and I will not tolerate the thought of anyone, for any reason, being bullied. It starts with young people and can end with young people. As we learn to embrace our diversity, we become stronger, more tolerant. The differences are beautiful. The differences matter. It's what makes life an adventure.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Reason

• Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Today
  • Kind
  • Religious

• The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Think
  • Move
  • Conditions

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • Hate

• But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Motivated

• When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Priorities
  • Tolerate
  • Unfinished

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