The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable.

“The law is designed to help us live. It has no other justification. If it cannot do that, if it operates only theoretically, the…

— Tom Rosenstiel

“My dear child,” the priest inserted, “it’s not often one of these”--he threw a meaningful glance at Hunter--“ gentlemen offers to make an honorable…

— Catherine Anderson

“In the corporate realm, where several laws are in operation, implementation receives a blow when it comes to interpretation and understanding the spirit and…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

Whatever I am doing, I try to make it about something honorable, because if they are honorable things, I don't have to hide them…

— Brian Mast

“My dear child,” the priest inserted, “it’s not often one of these”--he threw a meaningful glance at Hunter--“ gentlemen offers to make an honorable…

— Catherine Anderson

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

— Jodi Picoult

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

— Margaret Mead

You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved…

— Gail Caldwell

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a…

— Andrew Sullivan

“shared pain is more bearable.”

— Isabel Allende

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away…

— Paulo Coelho

How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll…

— Anonymous

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead