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Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
My threshold for mean gossip is nearly intolerable.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.
Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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.
It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
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.
Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.
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.
Even though you find yourself in an intolerable position, one in which you think you have no right to be, accept it here and now as the Cross; then, later, you can plan how to do better.
Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not.
I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
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.
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
Happiness is best defined by its antonym, which is less 'unhappiness' than 'anxiety.' Anyone who is not oppressed by intolerable worry or grievous pain is almost certainly happy, whether rich or poor, well or ill, successful or frustrated.
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.