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Quotes About Toxicity

Who is Justin Bieber, and why is his hair poisonous to small girls?" It was a long time before he could stop laughing hard enough to answer her.
~ Alyssa Day
I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.
~ Paul Feig
Donald learned that you can never admit you're wrong. That was considered a weakness... it's a kind of toxic positivity, there was no admitting pain, there was no admitting weakness.
~ Mary L. Trump
Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.
~ Grace Paley
As an industry, we need to come together and weed out toxic people who cannot respect their co-workers. They are not irreplaceable. There is enough talent out there.
~ Pulkit Samrat
The dose makes the poison.
~ Paracelsus
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
~ Aubrey McClendon
The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.
~ Steve Erickson
Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It's poison.
~ Jason Witten
If there's anyone who makes you feel badly about yourself or anything that's bringing you down, you don't need it in your life. Negativity begets negativity, but positivity begets positivity.
~ Stephanie McMahon
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
~ Zig Ziglar
There will always be people like that. Don't give them your time or your sanity.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Consequently, children who experience toxic stress have trouble concentrating, controlling impulsive behavior, and following directions.
~ Robert D. Putnam
Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.
~ Michelle N. Onuorah
You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man," she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn't said "abusive," I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.
~ Debby Bull
Nicotine had been isolated and synthesized in the nineteenth century. In pure form, it took an ounce at most to kill the average adult.
~ Deborah Blum
Tener miedo a la muerte es malo para tu cuerpo, pero no porque la muerte se acerque siniestramente, sino porque el miedo es un tipo de tóxico.
~ Deepak Chopra
l'un des plus meurtrière et destructrice concoction plus venimeux est créé en mélangeant faux orgueil de l'ignorance et de la puissance. malheureusement il ya plus de victimes de cette formulation toxique que le poison lui-même.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
More than 40 percent of the suicides among chemists, both men and women, occur from swallowing cyanide, according to a report in the New York Times (9/4/87).
~ Derek Humphry
I think now, so late, too late, of the neighbor's lawn service, using leaf blowers to release herbicide all over their lovely roses. How all of that invisible death didn't disappear into the air. How it coated us, all of us, and that holding pond. How it masked us from ourselves. How it shone through us and we didn't even know it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I see it, I taste it. All the contamination. The low-level radiation, the storage sites, the runoff. Every place is sick—there's sick everywhere
~ Jeff Vandermeer
People come out of the woods and pretend to be your friends. They offer you something—laces, a comb—and you take them. Stop it. Stop taking poison from fake friends. It'll kill you.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
both nutritionally and ecologically. The resolution of this crisis is so fundamental to our personal health and the health of our planet that we must look more closely at water than we look at any other nutrient. What is happening to our water is simple: it is Drying Up, Getting Diverted, and Becoming Toxic.
~ Elson M. Haas