Tolerate Quotes - Page 15

• 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

  "Autopsy for an Empire". Book by Dmitri Volkogonov, p. 74, 1998.

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• True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

  Charles Colson

  Knowing, Tolerance, Judgment

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• Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

  Robin Sharma

  Average, Excellence, Settling

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• In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

  Peter Mullan

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Differences, Different, Answers

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.142, Scholastic Inc.

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• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Reality, Tolerance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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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]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Liberty, Care

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• A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

  Steve Jobs

  Player, Working Together, Plus

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

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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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• Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Funny, Humorous, Hair

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Loss, Availability, Commodity

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

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• there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Two, Humanity

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.471, Vintage

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

  Mary McCarthy

  Character, Views, Argument

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment, in order to preserve democracy, and if people start bullying people into fearing that if I say something I could offend people, that is exactly why we have a constitution.

  Harvey Levin

  Country, Bullying, Order

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Skills, Credit, Way

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Lying, Integrity, Eye

  "Baghdad or Bust: The Inside Story of Gulf War 2". Book by Mike Ryan, 2003.

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• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

  Karen Horney

  Love, Loneliness, Bridges

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

  Dominic Cooper

  Jobs, Character, Numbers

  "Don't call me Mr Darcy" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2008.

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• The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

  Amy Poehler

  School, Hands, Want

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• Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Laughter, Play, Lust

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”-because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

  E. Lockhart

  Junk, Want, Likes

  E. Lockhart (2010). “Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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