I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for. — April Winchell Copy Share Image
We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage… — Maria Echaveste Copy Share Image
Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by. — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
