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I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me. — Charlie Crist

Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove. — T. S. Eliot

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable. — Jewel

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live. — Suzanne La Follette

You will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable; — Teresa Of Avila

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all. — Marcus Aurelius

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable. — George D. Prentice

Because I love you, and to see you in any kind of pain is intolerable. If you are hurt, I will always do my best to see that you are mended. — K.M. Shea

Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness. — Alan Moore

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us. — Samantha Harvey

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. — Rex Stout

You're forgetting about God.
He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses. — Oscar Wilde

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer. — Joyce Carol Oates

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable. — Rosamunde Pilcher

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. — Charles Lamb

I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease. — Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich

The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It seemed to crush him. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women ... — Orson Welles

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. — Thomas Bernhard

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable. — Father Damien

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces. — Hervey Allen

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. — Phyllis McGinley

This focusing outward ... painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination. — M.L. Stedman

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt
Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve — Jimmy Carter

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate. — Philip Jose Farmer

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James

What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who — Richard Ford

It had been my experience that fatherhood was mostly a matter of suffering the insufferable, tolerating the intolerable, and changing diapers. — Jeff Lindsay

For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions. — Robert Ludlum

I've told you before, I love like a madman," he said. "Immoderate, jealous, possessive ... I'm absolutely intolerable. — Lisa Kleypas

Thomas thought Chuck's personality had gone from mildly irritating to intolerable. — James Dashner

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. — Doris Lessing

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. — Edward Abbey

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind. — David Grann

The idea that her death should precede his was worse than intolerable, it was obscene. — Joe Hill

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles

Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible — George Bernard Shaw

His life had no meaning. It was intolerable. The last three decades had been a hollow waste of time. Hands — Denise Mina

The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists. — Doan Van Toai

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church ... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life. — Venerable Bede

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. — Sal Albanese

It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder. — Rebecca Goldstein

More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable. — Asha-Rose Migiro

Flight is intolerable contradiction. — Muriel Rukeyser

Our losses ... have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses. — Karl Donitz

I respect only those who stand up to me, but I find such people intolerable. — Jonathan Fenby

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary. — Jeremy Taylor

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. — Cesare Pavese

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. — Fay Weldon

To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable. — Eric Partridge

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. — Dick Cavett

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable. — Martha Ostenso

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word. — David Jones

Stupid is forgivable, but ignorance is intolerable. The first is a birth defect, the second is a choice. — Lucee Lovett

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

The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If — Eckhart Tolle

I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ] — Mary Ann Shaffer

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny. — John Locke

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable. — Mason Cooley

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. — Trevor Nunn

Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot. — Josh Lanyon

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

Our losses ... have reached and intolerable level. — Karl Donitz

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable — Garrett Hardin

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. — John Vanbrugh

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different? — George Orwell

Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ... — Edward Albee

Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever. — Donna Tartt

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron De Montesquieu

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. — Robert Breault

It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress. — Christopher Morley

It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable. — Fay Weldon

Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church. — R.C. Sproul

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society — Nathan Rosenberg

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi

Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable. — Bernard Lewis

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. — Arthur Koestler

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense. — William Faulkner

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. — Learned Hand

I'm sorry, Cannan, but your niece is intolerable."
"As are you. — Cayla Kluver

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I am not saying we should stop doing impossible,we should do and think impossible but we should not do and think intolerable. — Rajesh Walecha

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. — Juvenal

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron

the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable. — Gail Godwin