Words matter. These are the best Intolerable Quotes from famous people such as Richard Coles, Trevor Nunn, Andrew Breitbart, Dick Cavett, Rafael Correa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I’m not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it, though I miss them and I wish they’d stay. But I sometimes think you leave to come back, and that’s certainly true in my case.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else’s decision about the final form of something. It’s so hard as to be intolerable.
In the public eye, being a victim of past injustices does not win the right to propagate current and future ones, and that’s intolerable to those in charge of the race industry today, whose power relies on maintaining forever a latent rage that can be turned on and off at the will of the nation’s elites.
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, ‘Hey, you’re in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you’re in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don’t want frank assessments.’ I think the opposite is the case.
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it’s intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Working with children has done well for me. I don’t find them intolerable or frustrating. They’re just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams – and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the ‘personality-cult’ of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Even though you find yourself in an intolerable position, one in which you think you have no right to be, accept it here and now as the Cross; then, later, you can plan how to do better.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Happiness is best defined by its antonym, which is less ‘unhappiness’ than ‘anxiety.’ Anyone who is not oppressed by intolerable worry or grievous pain is almost certainly happy, whether rich or poor, well or ill, successful or frustrated.
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It’s not Islam.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
That’s the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.
Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity… they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
