Intolerable Quotes
244 quotes by 204 authors
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
— Plato
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Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is,…
— Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
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Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be…
— Arjun Makhijani
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More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.
— Asha-Rose Migiro
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of…
— Pope Leo X
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
— C.S. Lewis
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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
— Phyllis McGinley
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything…
— Jean Toomer
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This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that…
— Maurice Duplessis
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I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.
— Charlie Crist
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
— Thomas Bernhard
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Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a…
— Brad Marchand
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The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
— John Vanbrugh
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It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to…
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear…
— John Berger
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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
— Jonathan Lethem
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8…
— Anthony de Mello
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