Dose Quotes

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Wislawa Szymborska

Funny, Imperfection, Easier

"The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.

Lord Chesterfield

Life, Dream, Mean

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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

Paracelsus

Drug, Depends

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

Ringo Starr

Rocks, Rock And Roll, Soul

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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

J. G. Holland

Anger, Arsenic, Dignity

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Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Art, Power, Used

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Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going

Norman Vincent Peale

Motivation, Taken, Healthy

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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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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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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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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I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.

Stephen Lang

Years, Training, Add

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To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.

DeBarra Mayo

Exercise, Healthy, Nutrition

Erie Times, SportsWeek, March 3, 1986.

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