Quotes of Tolerable - somelinesforyou

“ What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ”

- Louise Nevelson

“ There is a comfort in the strength of love;'Twill make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice. ”

- Millicent Fenwick

“ Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth…suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market. ”

- Jean Claude

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

- Anais Nin

“ It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent. ”

- Barack Obama

“ What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. ”

- Peter MacKay

“ Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. ”

- Unknown

“ I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. ”

- Bob Hope

“ A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable. ”

- Anne W. Schaef

“ Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. ”

- Kofi Annan

“ Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable. ”

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“ A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable. ”

- Anne Wilson Schaef

“ It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. ”

- Robert Brault

“ Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. ”

- Bram Stoker

“ The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make… your life bearable. ”

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

“ Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. ”

- Voltaire

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. ”

- Abdallah II

“ I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable. ”

- Fred Rogers
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