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Quotes About Toxicity

If anyone is ever rude to you, then there's no need to hang out with them! Just find the people that make you feel good.
~ Colbie Caillat
If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.
~ Doris Roberts
Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
~ Frances Beinecke
In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
~ Frances Beinecke
Though all soft drinks are acidic, dark ones like Coke and Pepsi are the most acidic and it has been found that it takes 32 glasses of high PH alkaline water to neutralize a glass of cola. So acidic are some of these drinks that they can be and are often used to clean corrosion of car battery terminals, and can even be used to clean toilet bowls.
~ Prashant Bhushan
It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.
~ Scott Oden
Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.
~ Dave Pelzer
Hate is more toxic than any chemical. It poisons from the inside out. And it's a fast-acting poison; before you know it you're filled with it, and the hate is in charge. You can't control it anymore.
~ Martha Williamson
How did our politics get so poisonous? … You take a little bit of [the poison] so you can hate the other, and it tastes kinda good, and you like how it feels and there's a gentle high to the condemnation. And you know you're right? Right? You know you're right.
~ Stephen Colbert
Think twice before you eat rice because arsenic is not nice. -Johnny The Walker
~ Johnny Wowk
He had the ability to twist almost anything I said or did so that I seemed stupid. During
~ Jojo Moyes
Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann
~ Jonathan Kellerman
what John Holt, a former professor of education at Harvard, knew intellectually: for every day that school is toxic, it takes one day to heal. My mom knew something about healing because
~ Jonathan Mooney
None of us makes eye contact. We have pretty much had it with each other. We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. - Judd Foxman
~ Jonathan Tropper
Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there's a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic.
~ Ben Fountain
Glyphosate is only one of more than 80,000 registered commercially produced chemicals in the U.S. Some of these compounds, such as PFOA and the one I made my name investigating, hexavalent chromium, have also been convincingly linked to health crises - testicular cancer in the case of PFOA and lung cancer in the case of chromium-6.
~ Erin Brockovich
Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.
~ Gillian Flynn
Uma criança criada com veneno considera dor um consolo.
~ Gillian Flynn
We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves - surprise! - we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.
~ Gillian Flynn
You already have one asshole. You don't need another.
~ Greg Behrendt
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'
~ Woody Harrelson
We found out that we were dealing with a completely unregulated chemical, this chemical PFOA. This was a chemical that was a completely manmade material invented right after World War Two, didn't exist on the planet prior to the 1940s.
~ Robert Bilott
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who doesn't treat us well, who makes us feel worse about ourselves, who doesn't hold the same respect for us as we do for them, or who has such a dysfunctional life themselves that they threaten to bring us down with them.
~ Mark Manson