Intolerable Quotes

244 quotes by 204 authors

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. — Trevor Nunn
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of… — Emmet Fox
Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from… — June Hunt
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. — Hilaire Belloc
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of… — Ellen Willis
May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us. — David Platt
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall… — George Will
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings… — H. L. Mencken
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes,… — Charles Dickens
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. — Robert Breault
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only… — Aldous Huxley
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. — Plato
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. — Isak Dinesen
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich
You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently. — Brent Scowcroft
No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits… — Paulo Freire

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