Shirley Chisholm Quotes

What can't be helped must be endured.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.

I'm sure they can grin and bear it for a week. After all it's for world peace.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

Some things you can't control.