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Quotes About Doses

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
~ Edmund H. North
I love Paris, but it's not a city I would like to live in. It's one of my favorite cities but just in small doses.
~ Sara Sampaio
Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.
~ Dick Durbin
I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.
~ Genie Francis
The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses
~ Weldon Burge
Stress acclimatization is about measuring precise doses of stress followed by waves of recovery and then repeating these cycles very specifically. There must be time for adaptation to take place and there must be enough training, repeated over time, to help it stick as well as reinforcing the conditioning.
~ Dave Grossman
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
~ Jeanette Winterson
During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.
~ Theda Bara
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
~ Alexandra Ivy
For a time she had tried religion. It came in capsules, little doses of Crucifixation, sold on the streets of the old neighborhood of Central Station.
~ Rich Horton
On Jones's instruction, Larry Schacht ordered one pound of sodium cyanide, enough for 1,800 lethal doses. It cost $8.85.
~ Jeff Guinn
The human capacity for suffering was like that for joy. It could only have the greatest impact in small doses. After that, mind and body could no longer take it in.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.
~ L.M. Montgomery
So I've always been interested in politics. And I thank my parents for that. As you can see, there's a strong element of moral indignation behind this interest, and indignation is well and good in doses, but I noticed fairly early in life that some people live to find stuff to be indignant about. And it's pretty unattractive. That's why I decided to become a wiseass.
~ Al Franken
As a homeopath, he knew the powers not just of ordinary opiates but also of poisons such as aconite, from the root of the plant monkshood; atropine, from belladonna (or deadly nightshade); and rhus toxin from poison ivy. In large doses each could prove fatal, but when administered in tiny amounts, typically in combination with other agents, such compounds could produce a useful palette of physical reactions that mimicked the symptoms of known diseases.
~ Erik Larson
Me trouvant imbibé préalablement de larges doses de cinéma je me trouvais mentalement à peu près dispos
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who doubts this has clearly not experienced its effects.
~ John Rush
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
~ Bernard Sahlins
He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T
~ Mary Balogh
Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under
~ Ville Valo
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.
~ Charles Duhigg
It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.
~ Viswanathan Anand
When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol.
~ Chuck Norris
By administering psychedelics in carefully calibrated doses, neuroscientists can profoundly disturb the normal waking consciousness of volunteers, dissolving the structures of the self and occasioning what can be described as a mystical experience.
~ Michael Pollan