"Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds……" — Caroline Knapp
"Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug."
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56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp has 56 quotes on this site.
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious…
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When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
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Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine…
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More Corrosive Quotes
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They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think…
— Steven Weinberg
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
— Eugenio Montale
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which…
— Carl Sagan
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with…
— Richard Dawkins
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[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.
— Steven Weinberg
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own,…
— William J. Brennan
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I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and…
— Mary Robinson
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Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way,…
— Jillian Michaels
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Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.
— William Shakespeare
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive,…
— Simon Mawer
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I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was…
— Steven Weinberg
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"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that…
— Charles Bernhard Heyd
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