Top 22 Tolerable Quotes

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition – be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

There’s no such thing as identity: it’s something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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 man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The development process is not that simple… When I started working at Fox in ’92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren’t viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Why have we settled for a medical system that allows cancer to be recast as a chronic and tolerable disease rather than one we should try to prevent? Why do so many scientists at the nation’s drug companies and universities turn their backs on the possibility of prevention?

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 it is entered into with mutual affection.

Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they’re at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

The concept ‘a bit racist’ doesn’t exist. There are no tolerable quantities of racism. It’s unacceptable regardless of where it happens or the form that it takes.

I’m very lucky with the people that recognise me – it’s at a very tolerable level. I don’t think I could handle the level of recognition which David Beckham has.