Toxic Quotes

219 Toxic quotes by 180 unique authors

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating… — Keith Jarrett
Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump… — Barack Obama
Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she… — Susan Forward
Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This… — Susan Forward
Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These… — Stuart L. Hart
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume… — Richard J. Foster
I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail. — Diablo Cody
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find… — Amy Dickinson
Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would… — Sandra Newman
From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and… — Jeff Goodell
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. — Julian Whitaker
Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that… — Josh Fox
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead. — Thomas Frank
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you… — Thomas Friedman
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good… — Rachel Cusk
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed… — Sylvia Earle
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy. — Annie Lennox
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets. — Joyce Maynard
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects… — Unknown Author

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