Tolerance Threshold Quotes

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

In life, you get what you tolerate.

No freedom to the enemies of freedom

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.

Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.

Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date.

The artist must know how far to go too far.

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.

Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.

I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn't gonna last.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.

Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever.

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