Tolerable Quotes
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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.
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.
To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't like them that much!" I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable.
It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.
It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds
Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.
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.
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 more tolerable world for everyone.
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.
