Quotes About Tolerable

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.

life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday, then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; the pain is absorbed in growth.

the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. However, I am being left in that ignorance which is tolerable only to those living at liberty

Why have we settled for a medical system that allows cancer to be recast as a chronic and tolerable disease rather than one we should try to prevent? Why do so many scientists at the nation's drug companies and universities turn their backs on the possibility of prevention?

It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.

a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Water is the usual drink, but everyone has wine, for no civilization has found life tolerable without narcotics or stimulants.

The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it ... when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not particularly fabulous.

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

Not for the first time, Grey wondered at a religion which rejected so many of the things that made life tolerable. Perhaps it sprang from an intent to make heaven seem that much more desirable by contrast to a life from which pleasure had been largely removed.

Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.