No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.
It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.
I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy. " Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.
The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.
Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or. . . " "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well. . . after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes. " "Let's avoid the swords," I decided.
Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.
I see the glass half full. . . but of poison.
Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.