Quotes About Toxicity

This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison—thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you.

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison—thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you.

If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.

coffee and tea, which have amply demonstrated their value to capitalism in many ways, not least by making us more efficient workers, are in no danger of prohibition, while psychedelics—which are no more toxic than caffeine and considerably less addictive—have been regarded, at least in the West since the mid-1960s, as a threat to social norms and institutions.

No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

Americans alive today each have about 625 times more lead in their blood than people did a century ago.

No one knows, because it is essentially impossible to determine, to what extent environmental factors contribute to cancers now. More than eighty thousand chemicals are produced commercially in the world today, and by one calculation 86 percent of them have never been tested for their effects on humans.

Hemoglobin has one strange and dangerous quirk: it vastly prefers carbon monoxide to oxygen. If carbon monoxide is present, hemoglobin will pack it in, like passengers on a rush-hour train, and leave the oxygen on the platform. That's why it kills people.

Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead—all at least mildly toxic

Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead—all at least mildly toxic, sometimes very much more so—for pale skin was a sign of supreme loveliness. (Which makes the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets an exotic being in the extreme.)

Cadmium, for instance, is the twenty-third most common element in the body, constituting 0.1 percent of your bulk, but it is seriously toxic.

Yo permanezco lo más lejos posible de los que se quejan, porque la energía negativa es infecciosa. Hay

Hatred is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die of it.

No hay sustancias más letales que esas que se cuelan por cualquier parte, que se respiran sin saberlo, en las palabras o en el amor o en la amistad.

Te ahorro la réplica porque la veo venir: No hay sustancias más letales que esas que se cuelan por cualquier parte, que se respiran sin saberlo, en las palabras o en el amor o en la amistad. Ya va siendo tiempo de que me dejen solo, solito y solo.

We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.

Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them.

When you're jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you're jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out

Uma vez mortos, os segredos que tão cuidadosamente acalentámos, quais plantas carnívoras no meio de um jardim florido, ficam com frequência expostos à luz, onde têm oportunidade de se desenvolver. Cultivados pela verdade, fertilizados pelo rumor, florescem, mas as flores são tóxicas para quem quiser conhecê-las mais de perto e cheirar o seu perfume venenoso

Life became easier once I deleted some negative people.

A lifetime of unexplored disappointments can make us bitter, and stored-up resentment is toxic.

Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!

There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the development of a person.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.