Quotes About Tolerating Idiots

#1. I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.

Michel Faber

#2. Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, who paid more attention to us, who I could sit down with and talk to when I had a problem.' So relationships are critical.

Gerald Chertavian

#3. I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

Ben Horowitz

#4. In fact, Shakespeare was right when he said 'twice a babe once a man'. We are born into the world as helpless, weak infants, and some of us end our lives as vulnerable, frail adults, unable to speak coherently, or do even the simplest tasks.

George Korankye

#5. Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

#6. The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

William Howard Taft

#8. emerges from logic, not desire.

Gregory Benford

#9. You know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait that sounds fucked up.

John Green

#10. Music is a means of rapid transportation.

John Cage

#11. In your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

Jerry Rubin

#12. I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

Rickie Lee Jones