abuse Quotes

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, \'If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?\' \'Why, it stays with me, of course,\' the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, \'And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse,\' he said. \'I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you.\'

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

That is one way to go about preventing child abuse.

Every adult is required by law to report if they suspect child abuse or neglect. It's not just doctors and social workers and teachers. We're all responsible.

The commercial sexual exploitation and abuse of children is nothing less than a form of terrorism -- one whose wanton destruction of young lives and futures must not be tolerated for another year, another day, another hour,

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Without a change in the constitution, the abuse will just continue - no matter what. We hope the legislature will step up and do something about this. We have to get the ball rolling now.