Tolerate Quotes

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friend, Healing, Confusion

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Everything, Find

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

Time, Year, Resolution

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Able, Ourselves

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Music, Art, Understand

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.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Time, Respect

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Person, Able

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.
Paula Deen

Money, Important, Fashion

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

Ambiguity, Inability, Neurosis

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

Important, Jobs, Fellow

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes

Evil, Forgive, Face

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?
Shannon Hoon

Happy, Yourself, Selfish

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
Larry David

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill

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

Respect, Cannot, Resist

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
Martin Scorsese

Matter, Subject, Depth

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Nothing, Clever, Cleverness

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

Everything, Big, Word

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

Comedy, Rules, Taste

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

Learning, Law, Tell

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Douglas Engelbart

Person, Mature, Directly

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
William Allen White

Others, Since, Fair

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

Nothing, Wealth, Fortitude

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.
Maggie Smith

Good, True, Why

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Kenny Loggins

Children, Learned, Everyone

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Henry A. Wallace

Government, Industrial, Oppressive

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
Larry Flynt

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

Small, Easier, Doses

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Thomas Friedman

Down, Cannot, Place

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.
Ron Perlman

Cannot, Insane, Unjust

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