Tolerable Quotes

122 quotes by 108 authors

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely… — Maria Echaveste
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable… — H. L. Mencken
It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you… — James A. Baldwin
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a… — Benjamin Franklin
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We… — Miguel de Unamuno
We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not;… — Epictetus
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls… — Fernando Pessoa
You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay… — Mary Doria Russell
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain… — Thomas Jefferson
I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present. — David James
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to… — Wilfred Bion
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a… — Francis Thompson
Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable. — Caragh M. O'Brien
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable… — Calvin Coolidge
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. — Doris Lessing
The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until… — Russell Kirk
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action — Brendan Brazier

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