Tolerances Quotes & Sayings

Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents
but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole. — Frank Pittman

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi

There is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance, in the case of the United States would seem to me to have been surpassed when the American population reached, at a very maximum, two hundred million people, and perhaps a good deal less. — George F. Kennan

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air. — Glenn Beck

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states. — Jay Leno

And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is
utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant. — Flannery O'Connor

Patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error. — K.J. Parker

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door
a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness. — Bob Dylan

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. — Pat Conroy

An arm was instantly around his neck. A dagger to his throat. A savage growl in his ear. Sagra. How he missed her. — Melina Marchetta

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas. — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words? — Virginia Woolf

Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more. — Durga Chew-Bose

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant. — Pim Fortuyn

In our 14,384 oral glucose tolerances with insulin assays, there were 5,128 or 36 percent with lowered glucose levels after the first hour of peaking. The glucose levels were between 20 and 59 mg/dl. — Joseph R. Kraft

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health. — Gary Zukav

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is? — Hayden Fry