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Top Intolerable Quotes

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Phyllis McGinley

Famous Intolerable Authors

Leo Tolstoy

Bryant H. McGill

Brooks Atkinson

King Hussein I

Blaise Pascal Plato

Plato

Jonathan Lethem

Brent Scowcroft

Helena Bonham Carter

Aldous Huxley

Trevor Nunn

Muriel Rukeyser

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All Intolerable Quotes

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.

Louise Fletcher

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

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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.

Bryant H. McGill

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Blaise Pascal

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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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.

King Hussein I

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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Aldous Huxley

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