Psychotropic Quotes

#1. When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Amy Sedaris

#2. Their study found that the number of prescriptions required per resident fell to half that of the control nursing home. Psychotropic drugs for agitation, like Haldol, decreased in particular. The total drug costs fell to just 38 percent of the comparison facility. Deaths fell 15 percent.

Atul Gawande

#3. Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

Phyllis Schlafly

#4. I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Dale Carnegie

#6. I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.

Steven Petrow

#7. Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.

James Fenimore Cooper

#8. Trust the one with experience not the one with ideas.

Marty Rubin

#9. I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

Omar Sy

#10. If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

George W. Bush

#11. You're putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister.

Karen Maezen Miller

#12. The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

Dean Koontz

#13. As far as exercising goes ... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.

Drew Carey

#14. A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God's original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!

Billy Graham

#15. You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

Russell Simmons

#16. You walked into my life when I was nineteen years old. You were the only man I ever loved - the only man I ever hope to love. You took everything we did together, everything we were to each other, and scorched it to nothing: left it a cloud of ash.

Laura Barnett

#17. People aren't crazy, they're just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.

J.S.B. Morse