The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Votes: 6
Erich FrommWe tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. Votes: 5
William Ralph IngeSince others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. Votes: 4
William Allen WhiteWe should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. Votes: 4
Karl PopperOurs is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. Votes: 4
Flannery O'ConnorTolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. Votes: 2
Sidney HookI don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. Votes: 2
John LydonThe rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. Votes: 2
Douglas EngelbartThe only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. Votes: 2
James ThurberIn university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Votes: 2
Doris LessingWhen priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business. Votes: 0
Russell M. NelsonThe conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals. Votes: 0
Harry GoldenStop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. Votes: 0
Michael Ventura...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'. Votes: 0
Bob WoodwardThe world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives. Votes: 0
Francis ChanThe true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. Votes: 0
Walter J. PhillipsEvery organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes Votes: 0
Colin PowellA society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. Votes: 0
Rick StevesHow many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. Votes: 0
Natalie Clifford BarneyIt requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennI won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsThe hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltDon't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel. Votes: 0
Stanley KubrickDon't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy. Votes: 0
Ann NorthropPeople settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardThe heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. Votes: 0
Jose Ortega y GassetOnly mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterSometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho. Votes: 0
Margaret WayThirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand. Votes: 0
Stephen ColbertThe quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheTherefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy. Votes: 0
Martin LutherBut the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them. Votes: 0
Jean-Pierre RaffarinFreedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity. Votes: 0
Katherine Anne PorterUnbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulThe one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open. Votes: 0
Jane SmileyEveryone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. Votes: 0
William GreiderIt's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense. Votes: 0
Jane WagnerThere is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. Votes: 0
Richard MarcinkoNo country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaSince God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerI know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate. Votes: 0
Dolly PartonA-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work Votes: 0
Steve JobsWe lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves. Votes: 0
Elena FerranteThere is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauAs soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common. Votes: 0
Israel ZangwillDo more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate. Votes: 0
John AssarafI venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own. Votes: 0
Thomas KeatingYou have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free. Votes: 0
Larry FlyntWe are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleStep up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try! Votes: 0
Tom LehrerOnce you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less. Votes: 0
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