Top 100 Put Up Sayings
#1. Its not a contest about whose days suck the most. The point is we all have to put up with the bad days.
R.J. Palacio
#2. Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Barry Farber
#3. Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there ... no pun intended!
Grace Gealey
#4. Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.
Janet Hagberg
#5. So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
Deb Caletti
#6. Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
#7. Very often, however, this silly procedure is adopted by people who are not silly, but who, consciously or unconsciously, want to destroy Christianity. Such people put up a version of Christianity suitable for a child of six and make that the object of their attack.
C.S. Lewis
#8. This is utter crap!It's enough to put up big-character posters everywhere on the ground, but we should not send them into space.
Liu Cixin
#9. The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
Bonnie Raitt
#10. I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.
Cindy Margolis
#11. Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin Disraeli
#12. I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
Anne Hathaway
#13. I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
Billy Childish
#14. Ten o'clock!" "What does it matter when my things are put up?" the young man said. "There's no crowd at this moment; there will be cabins to spare. I'm waiting for a telegram - that will settle
Henry James
#15. Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
Sathya Sai Baba
#16. We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
Baltasar Gracian
#17. If a man acts in such a way as to create a belief that he is dead, he must put up with the consequences.
R. Austin Freeman
#18. Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.
Louise Penny
#19. Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.
Denis Waitley
#20. How much good fortune had been strewn her way, starting with a man who still put up with her crankiness and irrationalities, who stayed loyal and devoted to her, as if she were the flag of his country.
Thrity Umrigar
#21. I know, Kiera," he said soothingly. "That's why I don't really buy the rumors. Because I know you, and I know you wouldn't put up with him cheating on you." As guilt flooded me, he added, "We're a lot alike in that way.
S.C. Stephens
#22. Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
Neil Jackson
#23. If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
Mignon McLaughlin
#24. Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.
Galeazzo Ciano
#25. A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
Robert Frost
#26. Do not put up with mean people who discourage your laughter.
Jim Dines
#27. All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter
#28. Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Roland De Vaux
#29. Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.
Mary Roach
#30. Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
Florence Nightingale
#31. Life is a chain of events executed in a way which is - most convenient to 'you', 'your' dreams & people 'you' desire to be with & people you have been put up to live with...
Sujit Lalwani
#32. To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs.
Jessica Simpson
#33. Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
Wayne Huizenga
#34. I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.
Bill Maher
#35. I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#36. I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.
Colin Firth
#37. Take a look at my face. Do you see my expression? Does it scare you? It should, because this is the expression of a woman who's fallen off a horse too many times to put up with more shenanigans of the verbal variety.
Katie MacAlister
#38. I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
Bruce Forsyth
#39. You should put up with heart-break when you sleep with the wrong partner.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#40. And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
Michel De Montaigne
#41. Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
Jessica Lange
#42. It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
Dick Wolf
#43. To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.
Barbara Smoker
#44. On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
Paul Murray Kendall
#45. I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?
Jane Austen
#46. I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]
Edgar Allan Poe
#47. Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.
John F. Kennedy
#48. I've missed you. I've had to put up with Rush's sulking ass. So trust me I missed the fuckin' hell outta you.
Abbi Glines
#49. Wizards can put up with any amount of deprivation and discomfort, provided it is not happening to them.
Terry Pratchett
#50. Sweetheart, I know you. You didn't put up that wall to keep him out. You put it up to watch him break it down to get to you.
Vi Keeland
#51. What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.
Michael Scheuer
#52. Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
Kumail Nanjiani
#53. One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
Will Rogers
#54. The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
Peter Bart
#55. I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but when I put up a picture of myself shirtless, it does get a little crazy.
Shemar Moore
#56. After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie.
Kara Goucher
#57. I am difficult to love, and I know it. I never learned the unconditional part, so trust evades me. Add sex and I fall apart, eventually retreating back into the swamp. Very few people can put up with me, and I can't blame them. I am a constant contradiction. I annoy myself.
Rosie O'Donnell
#58. The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
Roberto Cavalli
#59. Gabril's voice was strong and sure. I believe in you, and I've fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight.
C.J. Redwine
#60. Self-respect, self-preservation, both of these things. And because you being willing to put up with my love is not good enough. Not even remotely. I'm not going to be your regular live-in fuck buddy, Jimmy, exclusive or not. Your whole offer is soul destroying.
Kylie Scott
#61. So why didn't you put up with it before? Why didn't you turn yourself in before I even knew you?
Liane Moriarty
#62. The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
Willa Cather
#63. It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House ... All of these great performers from all over the country lived on the Lower East Side, and they would take somebody's living room that opened right onto the street, open the door and charge tickets and put up chairs.
John Leguizamo
#64. Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
#65. people should be careful of only looking for signs from God." Remember the Devil can put up billboards too.
Stephan Labossiere
#66. We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
Jo Brand
#67. Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
James Russell Lowell
#68. Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.
Kelly Rossi
#69. Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.
Rick Santorum
#70. I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
Jane Austen
#71. In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
Subcomandante Marcos
#72. Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career.
Anonymous
#73. For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being secret.
Elias Canetti
#74. They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
Dennis Eckersley
#75. The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.
Will Rogers
#76. I've stolen music before, I don't know anyone who hasn't. But if you're gonna do that, I want you to be able to have an opportunity to know the real lyrics because I really hate it when people put up wrong lyrics online.
Justin Vernon
#77. They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.
Jasper Carrott
#78. A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.
Harriet Morgan
#79. I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.
Elle Fanning
#80. The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
Martin Yan
#81. At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.
Gabriel Chevallier
#82. The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.
Wynton Marsalis
#83. Do you remember telling me how you're willing to put up with the pressures of fame if it means you can play your music for people?' When she nodded, he said, 'Making sure my family is happy has been worth any tradeoff.
Bella Andre
#84. I have had a lot to put up with," she said, looking meaningfully at me. "I know the Bible tells us to turn the other cheek but there are only so many cheeks in a day.
Jeanette Winterson
#85. If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Jean Racine
#86. It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
Albert Pujols
#87. Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David Byrne
#88. It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.
Aporva Kala
#89. Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?
Julius Bailey
#90. You're mine, and I will not give you up. Not today, not tomorrow, not fucking ever. You do not tell me what I deserve. You do not lie to me. You do not hide. You do not put up a front for my benefit. And you do not put yourself down. Are we clear? Nod if we are.
Elle Aycart
#91. Whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#92. It was the rare souls full of hope who showed the world what could be done; and then came the thundering herds, those doubters and naysayers who had once put up barriers, now shoving everyone out of their way.
Hugh Howey
#94. We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.
Rick Santorum
#96. I mean ... we'd just passed our one-year dating anniversary. I figured I was a sort of long-term investment for her. She hoped I would pay dividends eventually; if I died now, she would've put up with all my annoying qualities for nothing.
Rick Riordan
#97. Yes. But prepare yourself, there's going to be a lot of cuddling tonight." "Ew." I scrunched up my nose at him. "I know, I know. But you're going to have to be brave and put up with it." Quietly, I laughed. "I think I can do that.
Kylie Scott
#98. What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?
Naeem Khan
#99. I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like 'Rush Limbaugh,' and we don't have to put up with that.
Howard Dean
#100. Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
J. D. Hayworth
