Quotes of: Tolerance Keyword

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Xun Zi

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The Captive & The Fugitive

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Everything You Know

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

Emma

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Fugitive Pieces

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

Full Dark, No Stars

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

The Bhagavad Gita

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

Rick Yancey

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

How to Talk to a Widower

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

Killosophy

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Sojourn

You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.

Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

Men at Arms

Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society.

A Spacious Life: Memoir of a Meditator

The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.

Philosophical Dictionary

Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church.

Quixotic

I’m taller in tolerance than I am in height. Barely. I’m only 6’3, so I apologize for not being more understanding.

Xazaqazax

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

The Carradine Brand

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

Oswald Chambers

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

Paul Harris

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

Peter Mullan