Unhealthy Quotes - Page 8

I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.

Joycelyn Elders

Children, Confusion, Healthy

Source: www.motherjones.com

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Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping

Chester Bennington

Dream, Sleep, Circles

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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

Michael Moorcock

Heart, Ambition, Brain

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Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Country, Ignorance, Intelligent

"Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. December 06, 2010.

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As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

Thomas Ligotti

Mean, Years, Numbers

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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

Michael Pollan

Thinking, Ideas, People

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Psychosis, Neurosis, Sin

Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.106, Hachette UK

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But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have what they want, express their love as they please, without fear of harassment, ostracism, persecution, or even the law. Even emotionally abusive, adulterous relationships are often tolerated, despite the harm they cause others. In our progressive, permissive society, all these harmful, unhealthy types of "love" are allowed--but not ours.

Tabitha Suzuma

Girl, Law, Want

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

Haruki Murakami

Healthy, Soul, Body

Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.98, Random House

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I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Guy, Leaving, Obsession

Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

Anthony Venn-Brown

Gay, Men, Play

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It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Haruki Murakami

Wall, Pride, Healthy

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The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sadness, Order, Noise

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Two, Ephemeral, Emotion

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Of Love and Other Demons”, p.121, Penguin UK

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If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.

Rajneesh

People, Mad, Healthy

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...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

David Foster Wallace

Thinking, People, Substance

David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.146, Hachette UK

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Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Walter Reuther

America, Politics, Profit Sharing

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Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.

Fulton J. Sheen

Real, Get Well, Men

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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.

May Sarton

Sweet, New York, Paris

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If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

Emma Thompson

Fall, Artist, Challenges

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No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.

Anat R. Admati

Play, Risk, Easy

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Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Wind, Hot, Cold

"De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI: "The Directions of the Streets with Remarks on the Winds", Section 1,

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From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Water, Healthy, May

"De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 10,

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If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

Anthony Bourdain

Class, America, Poor

"Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

Mel Gibson

Believe, Thinking, Race

"Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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