Bearable Quotes
113 quotes by 100 authors
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
— John Green
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was…
— Robyn Davidson
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
— Jodi Picoult
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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 your…
— Gail Caldwell
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left…
— John Banville
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable,…
— Robert Frost
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,…
— N. T. Wright
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes…
— Tom Robbins
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
— Philip James Bailey
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Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
— Rowan Williams
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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable…
— Simon Conway Morris
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I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
— Millicent Fenwick
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Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.
— Josephine Hart
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Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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