Intolerable Quotes

244 quotes by 204 authors

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart?… — Louis J. Camuti
Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and… — Albert Pike
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon
Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone… — Cicely Saunders
If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it… — Gaetano Mosca
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance… — Oswald Mosley
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular.… — Dorothy Dunnett
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society — Nathan Rosenberg
That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away… — Louise Fletcher
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent… — Winston Churchill
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden… — Quentin Crisp
To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in… — Joan Lunden
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and… — Charles Handy
The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own… — Vernon Howard
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse. — Geneen Roth
The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to… — Vince Lombardi
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. — Dominique de Menil
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose… — Dominique de Menil

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