Quotes About Tolerate
Stress is like an allergic person's reaction to the environment. If you have hay fever, you will probably be able to tolerate some allergens. When you really have trouble is when you are exposed to several allergens over too short a period of time. This is a classic case of the straw that broke the camel's back. Given a number of stressors in a short time, just about any dog may behave aggressively.
~ Brenda Aloff
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If we find ourselves offended or disturbed by elements of the Ikon services, we might ask ourselves whether the disruption of a disturbing liturgy is necessary at times to arouse people like us from the religious slumbers that so frequently overtake us - like the bizarre characters in a Flannery O'Connor novel or short story, for example - to jolt us into the realization that we routinely tolerate the intolerable in the ways we speak of God.
~ Brian D. McLaren
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So how would I do it again if I were to cater for the children in the garden rather than merely tolerate them? I would make places.
~ Monty Don
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she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.
~ Carol Shields
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He might tolerate someone dipping into his stash of dark-roast coffee, but nobody messed with his pot. Not even if she was cuter than a bug's ear, with that faint sprinkling of freckles across her nose.
~ Carolyn Brown
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
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Se c'è tra noi chi voglia dissolvere questa Unione o cambiarne la forma repubblicana, lo si lasci indisturbato, a testimonianza della sicurezza con la quale si possono tollerare opinioni errate là dove la ragione è libera di combatterle.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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La Belleza, Fedro mío, y solo ella es a la vez visible y digna de ser amada: es, tenlo muy presente, la única forma de lo espiritual que podemos aprehender y tolerar con los sentidos.
~ Thomas Mann
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The moment you looked into his gray irises, you knew he would tolerate no challenge to his authority, and if his eyes turned gold, you knew you were going to die. In a fit of cosmic irony, he had fallen in love with me. I challenged his authority on a weekly basis.
~ Ilona Andrews
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I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
~ Isabel Allende
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.
~ John F. Kerry
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It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.
~ Jane Wagner
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When it appeared that even the most passive-aggressive attempts would not work, Charlie resorted to the ultimate Beta Male Attack, which was to tolerate Alvin and Mohammed's presence, but to resent the hell out of them and drop snide remarks whenever he had the chance.
~ Christopher Moore
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His cell phone rang, one of those extremely annoying songs that cell phone owners are so in love with because for some reason they can't tolerate a plain old-fashioned ring.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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I spend a good deal of time doing, for anxiety what's known as exposure therapy where basically you're supposed to confront things that cause you anxiety and learn to tolerate. It's all about learning to tolerate discomfort rather that avoiding anything that might make you feel uncomfortable.
~ Porter Robinson
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What never failed to boggle Daisy was how Judy Garland had only just arrived in this glorious colorful place and she immediately wanted to run back to some boring pig farm. The fact that everyone else loved the film...what did that say about people? It says that most people can tolerate being over the rainbow for only about thirty seconds.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.
~ Larry McMurtry
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To repeat: we can tolerate existence only if we believe—in accord with a complex of illusions, a legerdemain of impenetrable deception—that we are not what we are. We are creatures with consciousness, but we must suppress that consciousness lest it break us with a sense of being in a universe without direction or foundation. In plain language, we cannot live with ourselves except as impostors.
~ Thomas Ligotti
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I speak as one who can no longer tolerate that simple state, the cells of my body having opted for the quixotic pursuit of individual careers.
~ William Gibson
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What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
~ Henrik Ibsen
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Students are prepared to tolerate any other form of incompetence in an instructor, but not hostility.
~ Herbert A. Simon
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Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either.
~ David Brock
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I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.
~ Hugh Mackay
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Haruto is a good man. He's just—a little coercive at times. He also has a quick temper, not much patience. But his temperament is also what makes him good at business. His mind is incredibly sharp. He doesn't tolerate fools or people who think too slowly. It's what enables him to bring in the big bucks and afford us places like this." She gestures to her home. "I'm sure you understand.
~ Unknown
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