Toxic Quotes

• ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Actions
  • Islam
  • Toxic

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Alone
  • Better
  • Do Not

• I find Hollywood really toxic.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Find
  • Hollywood
  • Toxic

• The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Environment
  • Chemicals
  • Enviroment

• This burden makes them toxic—parts of ourselves that we need to deny at all costs. Because they are locked away inside, IFS calls them the exiles. At this point other parts organize to protect the internal family from the exiles. These protectors keep the toxic parts away, but in so doing they take on some of the energy of the abuser. Critical and perfectionistic managers can make sure we never get close to anyone or drive us to be relentlessly productive. Another group of protectors, which IFS calls firefighters, are emergency responders, acting impulsively whenever an experience triggers an exiled emotion.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Family
  • Emotion
  • Protect

• If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're only looking at toxic stuff and don't recognize there's going to be some good stuff if you're for infrastructure or whatever, you're wrong.

  

  Van Jones
  • Good
  • Looks
  • Stuff

• My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Mother
  • Moved
  • Toxic

• The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • America
  • Positive

• Twilight, I'm sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship. She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life is over and she's going to kill herself! What message are we sending to young people? That is not going to help this world evolve.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Relationship
  • Twilight
  • Unhealthy

• We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Exposure
  • Couples
  • Toxic

• Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Toxic
  • Masculinity

• So many men in the world (are) living in this sort of quiet desperation, confined in this box of toxic masculinity.

  

  Carlos Andres Gomez
  • Living
  • Many
  • Desperation

• I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
  • Secrets
  • Toxic
  • Leak

• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  

  Al Meyerhoff
  • Reality
  • Exposed
  • Toxic

• Authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Environment
  • Christ
  • Followers

• When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writer
  • Poison
  • Develops

• For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They're toxic and primitive. We need to look at it in a rational way and say, how can we help the body heal itself?

  

  Eva Vertes
  • Help
  • Cancer
  • Treatment

• I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Christianity
  • Message

• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Toxic

• I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Women
  • Definition
  • Toxic