I’m thankful I’ve learned to embrace insecurity, not just to tolerate it. Life is more fun that way, and I’m thankful for that, too.
You can’t tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
Those who only tolerate people they agree with or like aren’t actually tolerant.
I cannot tolerate fools – won’t have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy’s stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, ’cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.
It’s true – my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don’t even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn’t tolerate that, as she shouldn’t from a 14-year-old.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.
In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don’t belong to those groups or don’t associate with those people.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
‘Star Trek’ was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing – literally, silence can kill.
When you’re confined to a hospital bed, there aren’t many appointments you can make. You await visits from friends and family members. You enjoy the coconut ice cream they smuggle in. You tolerate the erratic and invasive visits of doctors and nurses, hoping that one of them will bring you closer to going home.
Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
No one much wants to be belittled, but we tolerate slurs surprisingly often for ourselves; for our lionised children, we demand freedom from insult.
Being a grandparent doesn’t interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they’re your own, but I’m not interested in other people’s. It’s something you tolerate because they are yours.
If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.
Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
CIU is not something to just tolerate. It’s important to find an allergist or dermatologist who can work with you to help manage your condition.
To be honest, I am a really simple person, and most of my friends are not from the industry. I am most comfortable with them. They don’t treat me as an actor, and neither would they tolerate me behaving like one.
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.
The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words ‘human rights’ spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word ‘China.’
The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.
We’re right to say that a culture that can’t tolerate free speech is… there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we’re right to want those experiences.
These days, as I am older and wiser, I realize that there is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don’t fit with their preconceived idea of you.
I’ve never really been able to tolerate zoos.
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.
Liberals love to screech about ‘free speech,’ but it’s pretty clear to most of us that they don’t really tolerate any speech but theirs.
I don’t tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that’s really, like, just unbearable.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person’s point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren’t so exciting and aren’t quite so attractive. Try that on for size and see if you can tolerate that.
When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core.
One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
You wouldn’t tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child’s birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. ‘I don’t usually read this kind of stuff, but.’
We won’t tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public’s interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.
I’m a woman, and I see women get put through an awful lot of grief and be subjected to the kind of criticism, remarks, and suggestions that no woman should ever have to tolerate. And I think we should be helping each other and supporting each other.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
There’s some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don’t tolerate violence on our streets.
If you want to be a real human being – a real woman, a real man – you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.’
I cannot tolerate immorality.
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn’t want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
