Quotes About Tolerated

#1. Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated ... they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

Tom Peters

#2. Human beings are children of the Earth. Whereas our common Mother Earth has tolerated our conduct up to now, she is showing us at present that we have reached the limits of what is tolerable.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Imre Kertesz

#4. I believe sarcasm is the passive form of rudeness and should not be tolerated in the Body of Christ.

Sean Feucht

#5. The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.

Robyn Carr

#6. All religions must be tolerated ... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Epictetus

#7. A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

William Henry Harrison

#8. I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy?

Kelley Armstrong

#9. Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Audre Lorde

#10. You ... you are so ... ' She couldn't even think of a suitable word.
'I know. Woefully primitive.' Laughter threaded through his voice. 'But I must be tolerated, because I'm a man and I really can't help it.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Kid Rock

#12. My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

Edward W. Said

#13. I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any response - "If we just tolerate one another ... " But my feeling is: Who wants to be tolerated? People don't want to be tolerated; they want to be loved.

Derek Webb

#15. DEFINITION Political correctness is an ideology that classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism, and which makes believers feel that no dissent should be tolerated.

Anthony Browne

#16. I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

Indira Gandhi

#17. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.

Nina George

#18. Abdul rose with minimal whining, since the only whining his mother tolerated was her own.

Katherine Boo

#19. To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.

Loretta Lynch

#20. Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.

Amanda Marcotte

#21. In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

Walter Lippmann

#22. Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

Joe Rogan

#24. I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Brene Brown

#25. Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Anne Michaels

#26. I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Nic Pizzolatto

#27. Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes
America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
have tolerated the last eight years?

Frank Zappa

#28. Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. "This might not work" isn't merely something to be tolerated; it's something you must seek out.

Seth Godin

#29. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

Aung San Suu Kyi

#30. If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Bob Dole

#31. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Haim Ginott

#32. Life is a thing to be experienced; not merely tolerated.

A.L. Hearn

#33. The safety of the country is at stake ... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat ... No faltering can be tolerated today.

Joseph Joffre

#34. For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

George W. Bush

#35. And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.

Dennis Miller

#36. Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.

Kenneth Copeland

#37. Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.

Jared Taylor

#38. New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

Mary C. Jones

#39. Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#40. We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry ... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.

D. James Kennedy

#41. Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Simon Raven

#42. Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#43. I wonder why they still love me and why I can't love them back and how two normal stable people could have created something like me, lived with something like me, and tolerated something like me.

James Frey

#44. If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#45. If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Paul F. Davis

#46. We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Brad Stevens

#47. Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Horace

#48. I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

Woody Allen

#49. Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

Swami Vivekananda

#50. Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

F. R. Scott

#51. She was so sick of hearing that excuse. Bullying was tolerated because bullying made its victims stronger, determined to fight back ... she loathed that logic.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#52. ...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.

Russell Shorto

#53. Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married."
"To her least favourite man in the world, no doubt. I clearly recall how Mrs. Bennet barely tolerated my presence when I visited Longbourne.

P.O. Dixon

#54. It is a disturbing aspect of human nature that if there is a place where there are no consequences and where the most grotesque murders are tolerated in the name of a cult claiming to be a faith, a certain type of person will be attracted to it.

Richard Engel

#55. We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Ban Ki-moon

#56. It is in the nature of every application of violence that it tends toward a transgression of the limit within which it is tolerated and viewed as legitimate.

Ludwig Von Mises

#57. The only fool he tolerated gladly was himself

Michael White

#58. The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

James L. Petigru

#59. Go where youre celebrated - not just tolerated.

Bob Beaudine

#60. Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Rudolf Bing

#61. Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

Louis Stokes

#62. There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#63. Atheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS.

Heinrich Himmler

#64. She crawled," Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. "She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren't for the two subs in the pack, I'd be on the bottom. And she wouldn't stand up in my presence for guilt.

Patricia Briggs

#65. I'm not an Elder, she continued, I'm merely a vestige of an old and forgotten way of life...tolerated because I'm quiet, useful because I know things no one else does.

Aaron Safronoff

#66. Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

Bill Moyers

#67. A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

George Bernard Shaw

#68. An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.

Albert Mohler

#69. The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Richard Cobden

#70. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged.

Anonymous

#71. The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue ... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

Margot Asquith

#72. Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

#73. Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

John Locke

#74. The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#75. All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#76. No doctrine of Redemption that in any way casts the slightest shadow over the high mountain of Divine Sovereignty can be tolerated for a moment.

Arthur W. Pink

#77. Every form of strength is also a weakness. Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.

Michael Lewis

#78. One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Jack Welch

#79. He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.

Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.

Neil Gaiman

#80. 6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.

Jasper Fforde

#81. Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

George Ryan

#82. 7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

Jasper Fforde

#83. I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

Louis Armstrong

#84. Nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#85. A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

John Foster Dulles

#86. Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

Gordon Brown

#87. There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan K. Simpson

#88. When exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy?

Rebecca Solnit

#89. There is nothing", answered he, "which requires more immediate notice than impertinence, for it ever encroaches when it is tolerated.

Fanny Burney

#90. It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

David Barton

#91. It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Zainab Salbi

#92. Nixon's offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Jacob M. Appel

#93. Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

Michael Gambon

#94. Jumping, waving arms, cheering, laughing, head-butting him in the groin, an unfortunate ritual in the Tanner home, very much unappreciated by Jim, but tolerated for the sake of the children, Grace, Bobby and Steven joined Jason next to their father.

Mike Jackson

#95. I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardner

#96. Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

George Santayana

#97. Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Demetri Martin

#98. The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

H.R. Giger

#99. I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Klaus Kinski

#100. Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

Michael Foot