Tolerate Quotes - Page 5

• Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Attitude, Tolerance

  "It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights" by Daniel Barenboim, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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• We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Vanquish

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.134, 北戴河出版

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• Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Moving, Stupidity, Able

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• Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Emptiness, Humans

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

  Heinz Pagels

  People, Simplicity, Progress

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Patriotic

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Circles, Religion, Attention

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• Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Mean, Issues

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• The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him... You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you... Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest - just like you... That is why Jesus is worshiped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "When the Shoe Fits: Talks on the Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu". Book by Rajneesh, 1976.

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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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• She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, People, Endurance

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

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• A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

  Rick Steves

  Marijuana, Choices, Alternatives

  Rick Steves (2015). “Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook”, p.973, Avalon Travel

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