Quotes about Intolerable

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers. Votes: 3

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. Votes: 3

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. Votes: 3

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell! Votes: 3

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. Votes: 2

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. Votes: 2

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. Votes: 2

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Votes: 2

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. Votes: 2

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Votes: 2

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Votes: 2

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life. Votes: 2

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Votes: 2

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. Votes: 2

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. Votes: 2

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Votes: 2

Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not. Votes: 2

Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair. Votes: 2

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. Votes: 2

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. Votes: 2

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. Votes: 2

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. Votes: 2

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. Votes: 2

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. Votes: 2

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy. Votes: 2

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. Votes: 2

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. Votes: 2

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. Votes: 2

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. Votes: 2

Flight is intolerable contradiction. Votes: 0

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level. Votes: 0

silence is the most intolerable of answers. Votes: 0

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. Votes: 0

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. Votes: 0

Life without music would be an intolerable insult. Votes: 0

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable. Votes: 0

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. Votes: 0

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable. Votes: 0

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. Votes: 0

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream Votes: 0

we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. Votes: 0

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny. Votes: 0

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. Votes: 0

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. Votes: 0

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. Votes: 0

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable. Votes: 0

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse. Votes: 0

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us. Votes: 0

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. Votes: 0

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Votes: 0

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones. Votes: 0

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. Votes: 0

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable Votes: 0

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable. Votes: 0

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Votes: 0

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. Votes: 0

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. Votes: 0

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... Votes: 0

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. Votes: 0

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. Votes: 0

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. Votes: 0

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. Votes: 0

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. Votes: 0

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. Votes: 0

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. Votes: 0

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. Votes: 0

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time. Votes: 0

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. Votes: 0

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.' Votes: 0

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. Votes: 0

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. Votes: 0

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me. Votes: 0

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. Votes: 0

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. Votes: 0

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable. Votes: 0

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society Votes: 0

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. Votes: 0

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Votes: 0

...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses. Votes: 0

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. Votes: 0

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. Votes: 0

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. Votes: 0

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. Votes: 0

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many. Votes: 0

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. Votes: 0

Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot. Votes: 0

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve Votes: 0

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. Votes: 0

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. Votes: 0

I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable. Votes: 0

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. Votes: 0

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live. Votes: 0

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse. Votes: 0

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word. Votes: 0

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable. Votes: 0

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable. Votes: 0

More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable. Votes: 0

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Votes: 0

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then. Votes: 0

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. Votes: 0

North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing? Not the worst review the movie got. Votes: 0

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. Votes: 0

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently. Votes: 0

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall... Votes: 0

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field. Votes: 0

Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there. Votes: 0

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. Votes: 0

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish. Votes: 0

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable. Votes: 0

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability. Votes: 0

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute. Votes: 0

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly Votes: 0

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering. Votes: 0

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise. Votes: 0

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. Votes: 0

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. Votes: 0

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence. Votes: 0

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. Votes: 0

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces. Votes: 0

Mine is the sultry sunset when the skiesTremble with strange, intolerable thunder:And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyesDraw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder Votes: 0

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations. Votes: 0

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. Votes: 0

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once. Votes: 0

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable. Votes: 0

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry Votes: 0

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living. Votes: 0

While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance. Votes: 0

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many. Votes: 0

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable. Votes: 0

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. Votes: 0

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. Votes: 0

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. Votes: 0

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable. Votes: 0

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy. Votes: 0

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well. Votes: 0

Capitalism's concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense Votes: 0

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy? Votes: 0

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action. Votes: 0

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. Votes: 0

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds. Votes: 0

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff... Votes: 0

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement. Votes: 0

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment Votes: 0

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little. Votes: 0

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree. Votes: 0

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge Votes: 0

If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad. Votes: 0

The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering. Votes: 0

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration. Votes: 0