Dose Quotes - Page 11

• I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

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• How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional.

  Eric Heiden

  Rain, Moving, Thinking

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• There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape.

  Stacy London

  Cutting, Creating, Doe

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style Deluxe”, p.49, Penguin

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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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• You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Jobs, Together Again

  Straits Times, April 5, 2007.

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• An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

  William James

  Doctors, Favors, Patient

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• I can't help you. Not really. I can only show up with a bright heart and hope that I get you at the right micro-moment with the perfect dose of light that helps you see what you already know.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Heart, Light, Perfect

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• Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.

  Arielle Ford

  Soulmate, Bigs, Certain

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• The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, People, Triumph

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Self, People

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• How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

  Charles Kingsley

  Character, Blue, Pills

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• When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Light

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• Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

  Paracelsus

  Drug, Depends

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• Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

  Honore de Balzac

  Taken, Poison, Glory

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• ...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Two, Killers

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• I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

  Ben Marcus

  Grief, Bigs

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• The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Night, Practice

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• Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

  Ilka Chase

  Doe, Statistics, Audience

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• When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

  Amy Sedaris

  Medicine, Drug, Mind

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• Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.

  Van Jones

  Ocean, Communication, Inspiration

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• The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

  Joel Edgerton

  Character, Interesting, Quality

  "Joel Edgerton on THE GIFT, Making His Directing Debut, JANE GOT A GUN, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2015.

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• A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Home, America, Exhibitions

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• CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Thinking, Self

  "It’s Not Girls’ Fault" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2011.

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• Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

  Ville Valo

  Love Is, Madness

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• I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

  Vikas Swarup

  Inspiration, Reading, Modern India

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