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Quotes About Substances

All substances are poisons; there is none which is not.
~ Unknown
Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.
~ John Lloyd
Portugal is the only country in the world where all drugs are legal.
~ John Lloyd
People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
~ Leigh Steinberg
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
~ Barry Commoner
Thou has endowed man with the wisdom to relieve the suffering of his brother, to recognize his disorders, to extract the healing substances, to discover their powers and to apply them to suit every ill.
~ Maimonides
Our expectancies are rewarded by substances.
~ Malcolm Godwin
Of course I had a handkerchief. It lay, clean as a whistle, in my pocket where it had been for a week. For I had the knack of extracting from my nostrils, with the nail of my forefinger, the snuffling substances that impeded my breathing, and the use of a handkerchief seemed to me a piece of parental superstition.
~ Marcel Pagnol
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
~ Terence McKenna
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.
~ Marcus Buckingham
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
~ Dick Gregory
Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.
~ George Carlin
I drank a jar of coffee And I took some of these
~ Mark E. Smith
Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with
~ George Carlin
Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.
~ Jay Leno
acid has no implicit moral direction.
~ Unknown
In a rebuke to American gateway theorists who argued that marijuana stimulates an appetite for addictive narcotics, Dutch experts determined that social factors rather than the pharmacological properties of cannabis were germane to hard drug use. While marijuana smoking in and of itself did not function as a stepping-stone, marijuana prohibition put cannabis consumers in contact with pushers selling an array of illicit substances.
~ Unknown
When the medicine enters the body and stops the pain, the vibrations from the combined substances stop, and the various substances return to their original states, in which they emit their original vibrations. However, if these vibrations happen to damage other cell structures, then harmful side effects will result.
~ Masaru Emoto
The notion that some foods behave like narcotics goes back at least twenty years in scientific circles.
~ Michael Moss
As substâncias eram imprevisíveis e difíceis de controlar, mas por vezes os cirurgiões conseguiam operar sem os tremores convulsivos e os gemidos e gritos de dor. As receitas pareciam-lhe mais magia do que medicina
~ Noah Gordon
This is in essence what interested him the most: In what way do such distinct substances as the body and the soul connect in the human body and act upon one another?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
~ Paracelsus
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison.
~ Paracelsus
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes either a poison or a remedy.
~ Paracelsus