The world can absorb only doses of truth. . . too much would kill it.
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
Power doesn't always roar. . . The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses. . . : this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.
I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.
The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and imploding under the weight of so many competing roles. The women I have written in Bombshells struggle - sometimes hilariously, sometimes tragically - to bridge the chasm between the wilderness of their inner worlds and the demands of their outer worlds. And humour, in the end, is our saviour.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses
In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
I grew up like every young kid I know, who wants to be a cop and wants to be a firefighter, so this lifestyle that I've chosen happens to offer that in small doses in front of the camera. I want to take advantage of that. Hopefully I can play many, many different occupations.
Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under
