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Quotes About Tolerance

Love is better than hate at all times.
~ Lisa Scottoline
or show any disrespect for male
~ Lisa See
Even though we can't always have affection for every person we meet, we can always treat every person with kindness.
~ Lisa Unger
We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she'll shuck her muddy jeans and put on a dress, and everyone will gasp at her beauty. They'll all laugh about her tree-climbing, frog-catching days. But there's no such tolerance for the boy who puts on a dress, who wants a toy kitchen or a baby doll to love.
~ Lisa Unger
But I think how we treat any one person is how we treat the world
~ Lisa Unger
Think of him as an addict, said her new therapist in one of Selena's individual sessions. This doctor had fewer excuses for Graham. His behavior is something outside of you that you don't control and can't fix. Don't hang your worthiness on his failings. But now you have to decide where your boundaries are, what you will and will not tolerate. Every marriage is a negotiation. Both parties have to obey the terms.
~ Lisa Unger
That's everyone. No one's perfect, and no one needs to be.
~ Lisa Unger
She's gay?" "No." Addie reached for the burnt bagel, took a bite. "But she is human.
~ Lisi Harrison
I can't make sense out of that girl, he said to the bard, Can you? Never mind, Fflewddur said, We aren't really expected to.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.
~ Lois Lowry
But here in Village, marks and failings were not considered flaws at all. They were valued.
~ Lois Lowry
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I was just a little taken aback. That—that wasn't the proposition I was expecting, is all. Excuse me. I fear I am become incurably low-minded." "You can't help that, I'm sure," Ethan said tolerantly. "Being female, and all that." She
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Patience and exhaustion turn out to have a lot in common.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.
~ Lora Leigh
She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.
~ Lora Leigh
The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.
~ Loren Eiseley
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
~ Loren Eiseley
Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.
~ Lorrie Moore
The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.
~ Lorrie Moore
After all, it's pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you're a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.
~ Lou Anders
For what purpose?" "So they don't devour the other speakers.
~ Louis Bayard
Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies.
~ Louis de Bernieres