Dose Quotes

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Ive been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

I think we need a huge dose of love.

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me, loves diamonds & wants a wireless.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.