Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
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- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Oh God! Give me patience to tolerate the stupidity of human beings and nuisance of mosquitoes.
DR HITESH C SHETH We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
DEAN INGE Now they have a riddle.
- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others
WILLIAM GREIDER I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.
DR. CHAUVET Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Come on, you can tolerate it,
LIZ PHAIR I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tole...
LEWIS B. SMEDES What you tolerate is what you deserve.
TROY J. GAINEY People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do. That which you tolerate, yo...
AMAR RANDHAWA It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'...
MAGGIE SMITH Normal is defined by what we tolerate.
DENA ERTLE You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award
SEAN PENN You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]
SEAN PENN They love winners here. Like [General George S.] Patton said in his opening speech, they won't toler...
WAYNE GRAHAM Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.
MARGARET WAY Historically, there have been some biases against older women in terms of could they tolerate the [c...
DR. ARASH NAEIM It is unwise to tolerate what does not benefit you at all
SUNDAY ADELAJA In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING We will not tolerate the FDA's decision to approve the destruction of innocent human persons through...
JUDIE BROWN Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the f...
DENNIS MILLER The government will not tolerate any delay in reporting, any underreporting or cover-up of SARS figu...
GAO QIANG By and large, in our treatment provider system, that is not the type of behavior they tolerate.
KATHRYN JETT In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
DORIS LESSING It doesn't matter what it's called. We will not tolerate it.
LYNN BARNETT We're not going to tolerate this.
DAVE PISHKUR It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe t...
MAGGIE SMITH Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across t...
DENNIS MILLER It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak ...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools...
DORIS LESSING I don't know why some countries do not want to understand the fact that the Iranian people do not to...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
SIDNEY HOOK Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant
SIDNEY HOOK Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle
SUNDAY ADELAJA Be careful of what you tolerate, discern what is worth confrontation & stand your ground.
ROYCE PARFAIT Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUD Nobody who volunteers has to tolerate harassment.
BRAD PINSKY Tolerate, change, or be grateful.
J. ROBERT MOSKIN We cannot tolerate this situation.
ALBERTO LOZANO I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
DOCTOR WHO To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate.
JACKIE SPEIER When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each othe...
CAROLYN CHUTE “Art will not tolerate a mistress.”
JON LUVELLI I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal
S.R. CRAWFORD We are not going to tolerate this, ... If they decide they're going to violate the law, we are going...
CHARLES BRONSON Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
HEINRICH HEINE What we have to do is change our societal acceptance, ... A community will have the level of gang ac...
DAVID PAULSON We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced...
WESLEY CLARK ...I refuse to tolerate lists. They're lazy. And listy.
GREG GUTFELD A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the
unconventional, tolerate t...
BILLY GRAHAM That which you tolerate, you also encourage.
CLYDE LEE DENNIS the public can tolerate a Nazi America.
JACK KEVORKIAN America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misus...
DICK GREGORY As with all investments, what you buy depends on how much risk you can tolerate,
JAMES DINES What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN A great leader, could tolerate the short-lived dishonor by becoming a follower. A good leader, would...
ENRIQUE VEGA I was listening to what my knee said. I knew what exercises to do, what I could tolerate and when to...
DR. NICK DINUBILE All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER tolerate waiting and would be patient but only as long as they were convinced that Bush was using th...
ROGER AILES The people of West Virginia have made it clear that they will no longer tolerate a government that i...
JOE MANCHIN Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
GEOFFREY WEST What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't hu...
PATRICK LENCIONI We will not tolerate looting, zero tolerance, zero. We will have night vision capability,
DON DIXON Happiness happens when you know yourself, your true calling and that you get what you tolerate.
JOHN G AGNO The original plan was $4.5 million. The Corps' plan was $11 million and now it's even higher as I un...
DICK MESSERLY Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
GEORGE ELIOT Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they
cannot find it.
SIR JOHN DENHAM For a judge to tolerate that, that's just unbelievable. It's unacceptable.
GEORGE KENDALL This is something that no civilized country can continue to tolerate,
MARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.
JAN BREWER Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.
PHIL RAMONE It creates a situation that would tolerate that format.
MIKE SLIVE My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
DIXIE CARTER In some cases, some way, and sometimes you can tolerate or even if needed be considerate, but do not...
GLAD MUNAISECHE You know, I was up there racing with those guys at Chicago, and they're just going to have to tolera...
DANICA PATRICK The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt wit...
BRYANT H. MCGILL Men are not human beings,they are human doings
WARREN FARRELL Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until ...
DAVID CROSS To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give
TRISTAN BERNARD This is not because IRS employees are bad human beings or lazy human beings or stupid human beings; ...
NEWT GINGRICH I hope they put them in prison for a long time. We cannot tolerate people transporting illegal alien...
LAINE LAWLESS We will not tolerate their ineptitude, turn a blind eye to their failures or ignore acts of terror. ...
DAN HALUTZ Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that...
ALISON GOATE Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that...
ALISON M. GOATE All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
BONO For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof agains...
RICHARD ADAMS In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
PAT ROBERTSON It's improper, it's unwarranted and I will not tolerate it.
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