Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable. — Caragh M. O'Brien 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
“She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt our killer.” — Debbie Cowens 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
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
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
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but… — Samuel Richardson 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
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
I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith 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
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
You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way… — Mary Doria Russell 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 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
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
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
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
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
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for. — April Winchell Copy Share Image