Tolerable Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Iâ€™m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. Itâ€™s certainly… — Deborah Eisenberg
Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open… — James Q. Wilson
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study… — Vincent Van Gogh
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. — Robert Hass
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism — Benjamin Tucker
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we… — Ernst Toller
We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few… — James Lovelock
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This… — Robert Warshow
IÂ wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for. — April Winchell
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. — Pamela Hansford Johnson
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and… — Francis Pharcellus Church
But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in… — Tim Ferriss
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the… — Spider Robinson
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human… — Mark Twain
So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. — Robert Breault
Good-humor makes all things tolerable — Henry Ward Beecher
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a… — Eyvind Johnson

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