Abusive People Quotes

Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging can and should include any detrimental habits, including negative, controlling, and abusive people. Once you start living an empowered lifestyle that supports your own higher balance, you will find it to be an easy transition from the negative to the positive in every aspect of your life ~ Gary Hopkins

I don't get involved in personal abuse. I'm not reducing myself to that level. If people don't like what I wear, don't like what I look like, or whatever, that's their problem, not mine. ~ Jeremy Corbyn

When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don't wait for the second time before you address it or cut them off.

Many survivors are used to the "wait and see" tactic which only leaves them vulnerable to a second attack. As your boundaries get stronger, the wait time gets shorter. You never have justify your intuition. ~ Shahida Arabi

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people. ~ Ellen Greene

This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in their relationships. Sometimes our love becomes distorted by our feelings of insecurity and our fear of abandonment. This is the often the case with those who become overly controlling and overly smothering of their partner. Others become emotionally abusive because of their fear of intimacy. ~ Beverly Engel

One of the best pieces of advice we've heard for spotting potentially abusive people (spouses, dates, friends etc.) is to watch how they treat waiters and waitresses. No one expects you to become friends or even chatty with your server, but a waiter or waitress is a professional too and deserves to be treated with the same respect as a peer. ~ Becky Blanton

The First Amendment, he explained, exposed tolerance as a sham, because tolerance implies one superior group of people deigning to put up with their inferiors. "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights," Washington wrote. "For, happily, the Government of the United States . . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Of ~ Sarah Vowell

Most people would not trust a drunken prostitute like Daise. Would you have two weeks ago?'
She blinked at him. 'I don't know.' She hadn't even thought about prostitutes, drunken or not, two weeks ago. 'That could be me on the corner were things different.' She swallowed. 'Or if they go differently, it still could. I would want someone to believe me. ~ Anne Mallory

There was a shadowy light, not exactly twilight, but an uncertain vivid yet hazy illumination, wherein people walked like spirits, bathed in light and not revealed. ~ Iris Murdoch

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.' ~ Shari Arison

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself. ~ John Burnside

In life as people we do things we don't like. We make decisions that are not us. We make decisions that are not at our best interest , but opposing what we want and those decisions are the ones that take our happiness away. ~ Kyos Magupe

The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions. ~ Allen Hershkowitz

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. ~ Michael Chabon

I learned that once you make a decision, you need to see it through. If you don't, you'll lose faith in yourself, and that's when you'll let other people make decisions for you. ~ Katie Kacvinsky

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work. ~ Seth Godin

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. ~ Miguel De Icaza

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen. ~ Eve Chase

That's what life is about: People come and go. ~ Cecelia Ahern

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. ~ Rick Perry

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus. ~ Joyce Meyer

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad. ~ Gordon Strachan

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart. ~ Andrew Sean Greer

I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned. ~ Ani DiFranco

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother. ~ Duane Chapman

If you can hold back, judge people and differentiate between right and wrong you are not in love. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point. ~ Dana Brunetti

I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens. ~ Bruce Schneier

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime. ~ Steve McConnell

I believe celiac disease is a very serious ailment, and if you're diagnosed with it, I'm pleased that there are now gluten-free options, but these people who are treating gluten as, you know, an equivalent of Al Qaeda are worrying to me. ~ Anthony Bourdain

God is glorified when people see the Master and not the minister. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

The question is - and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer - is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that person - human life is not a person, then - I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'We're going to decide who are people and who are not people.' ~ Rick Santorum

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. ~ Paul Goodman

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. ~ Black Elk

It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them. ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy. ~ Judd Apatow

The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch. ~ Robin Wells

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America. ~ Peter Coyote

While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real. ~ Rosanne Cash

It was as if some people believed there was a divide between the books that you were permitted to enjoy and the books that were good for you, and I was expected to choose sides. We were all expected to choose sides. And I didn't believe it, and I still don't.
I was, and still am, on the side of books you love. ~ Neil Gaiman

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government. ~ Alan Keyes

We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about. ~ Terry Pratchett

Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them. ~ John C. Maxwell