Quotes About Tolerance

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

like the chronic stress we experience daily from small doses of negative feelings

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

We are talking about preventing our students from reading Huckleberry Finn! And why? Because it offends some people. Show me a book that offends no one, and i will show you a book that no one, in the whole history of the world, has ever willingly read.

I'll be patient. I can't even count the number of times I've had to be patient when it comes to you. With every passing year, one's store of patience inevitably grows. It's the only resource that grows. All the others tend to wither.

If differences are accepted, self-esteem can grow.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and habilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. The accidents in my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.

No longer mindful of the debt they owed the Pokanokets, without whom their parents would never have endured their first year in America, some of the Pilgrims' children were less willing to treat Native leaders with the tolerance and respect their parents had once afforded Massasoit.

The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors—and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed—they risked losing everything.

She sighed, knowing she couldn't push it any further. Thank you for being so... merciful, Allie said. But I would appreciate it if Pea-brain here would keep his hands off me. That's Pinhead, corrected the boy. Pea-brain works in the engine room.

Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

Dying was easy. A paper cut? That would be annoying.

You must find us binary people strange and confusing." "I did when I was younger. I never met someone born to a single gender until I was well into my teens. But I've come to accept, and even appreciate, your quirky rigidity.

Nu dispre?ui?i sensibilitatea nim?nui. Sensibilitatea fiec?ruia e geniul lui.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd get tired and leave. Even after I stopped listening it was like being battered with tiny pingpong balls.

How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more …

That girl enjoyed everything that bored me and everything that I enjoyed bored her. We were the perfect mates: what kept us going was the tolerable and intolerable distance between us. We kept meeting each day—and each night—with nothing solved and no chance to solve it. Perfection.

The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.

Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)

lei ti sorride. un sorriso che dice: so che sei pazzo ma per me va bene lo stesso.