Tahammul Quotes & Sayings

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time. — Grover Norquist

This absence of intellectual mechanisms for questioning our own actions becomes clear when the expression of any unstructured doubt - for example, over the export of arms to potential enemies or the loss of shareholder power to managers or the loss of parliamentary power to the executive - is automatically categorized as naive or idealistic or bad for the economy or simply bad for jobs. And should we attempt to use sensible words to deal with these problems, they will be caught up immediately in the structures of the official arguments which accompany the official modern ideologies - arguments as sterile as the ideologies are irrelevant. — John Ralston Saul

We'll shove our swords up Tywin Lannister's bunghole soon enough, — George R R Martin

Make thing effective for laughter and hapiness until the day of Judgment - before we make it "Effective" for you Hell ... — A Gentlemen

There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby. — Anne Rice

I've learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated; that citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform their countries; in short, that self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy. — Gloria Steinem

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate. — Jackie Vernon

I know people like Jon Snow a lot. — Richard Madden

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies. — Yoko Ono

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce. — Peter R. Grant

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism. — Rick Moranis

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year. — Gail Collins

News flash," he says. "I'm gay, not a witch. Gay and witch is Dumbedore, and last time I checked, he was still just a guy in a book. — Andrea Cremer

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it. — Jason Katims