On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before… — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War… — Benjamin B. Ferencz Copy Share Image
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
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