Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't… — Alison Rosen Copy Share Image
Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
