Tolerate Quotes

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?