We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.
A leaky faucet, a barking dog-those are things you tolerate.
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.
It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.
Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
The professional will not tolerate disorder. . . He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.
Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.
Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.