Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.
That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.
Most peoplemusicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important peoplemusicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o. k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.
Slander is poison to the soul.
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
theology is to religion what poisons are to food
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.
TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT.
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature. It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said. My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
The dose makes the poison.
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.