Tolerable Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. — Anais Nin
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when… — Samuel Richardson
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable… — Adam Smith
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his… — Herman Melville
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,… — Hermann Hesse
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who… — Jane Austen
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe,… — Robert A. Heinlein
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb… — Jon Krakauer
He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him,… — Colum McCann
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole. — Russell Brand
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — Johann Sebastian Bach
I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the… — Tessa Dare
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more… — Paul Auster
The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any… — Doris Lessing

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