Unhealthy Quotes - Page 12

• I think the reason a lot of celebrities feel insecure and want to stop eating altogether is because they see so many pictures of themselves on a daily basis. It's unhealthy how many times you see your own image - it's just constant. When you see something enough, you're going to tear it down to the point where some days you feel like you're not even pretty. I get insecure about my eyes because I once read a blog comment that said, "Her eyes are so small." I thought, Are my eyes small? Oh no - they are!

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

  John Henry Newman

  Struggle, Fighting, White

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.1416, Ignatius Press

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• Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Book, Men

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• Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strong, Motivation, Block

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• Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food is that the government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food, whether you mean organic or grass-fed or whatever.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Government, Support

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.

  George Harrison

  Work Out, Style, Trying

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Unhealthy Food, Violence, Levels

  "John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson". foodrevolution.org. January 01, 2013.

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• It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, Water, Soup

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

  Columbus Short

  Struggle, Self, Drug

  "A Sober, Drug-free Columbus Short Really Wants to Return to ‘Scandal’ – “I’m Still a Gladiator” by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2014.

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• The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Past, House, Political

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christianity

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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