Intolerable Quotes

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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall.… — Robyn Dawes
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
We make boundaries so that we can feel separate and move coherently through the world: it's part of our necessary natural growth to do that.… — Julie Henderson
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or… — George Bernard Shaw
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron de Montesquieu
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it… — Andrew Solomon
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which… — Mark Twain
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression.… — William Powell
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons… — Charles Krauthammer
We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do… — Elliot Morley
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of… — Blaise Pascal
Life without music would be an intolerable insult. — Edward Abbey
Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. — Edward Abbey
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who… — Martin Amis
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or… — Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those… — Edward Bellamy
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if… — Koichiro Matsuura

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