Poison Quotes - Page 11

• I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

  Eve Ensler

  Ideas, Body, Nine

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, War, Home

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.

  Marion Nestle

  Zero, Thinking, Names

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

  Sakya Pandita

  Enemy, Meat, May

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• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Men, Saint

  Ken Kesey (1965). “Sometimes a great notion”

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• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

  Ugo Betti

  Marriage, Men, Long

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

  Henry Adams

  Mind, President, Firsts

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• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

  Moliere

  Tongue, Proof, Malice

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• And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Heart, Fighting

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• Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Use, Ingredients

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• The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

  Eric Hoffer

  Feelings, Opiates, Stones

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Antidote, Nourishment

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• It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Two, Meat

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

  Havelock Ellis

  Civilization, Alcohol, Tests

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• 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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Healing, Wings, Flash

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a terrible poison, writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Terrible

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• Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Children, Fear, Mind

  Orison Swett Marden (1924). “The Conquest of Worry”

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• I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Snakes, Mind, Poisonous

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• I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

  Matt McGorry

  Distance, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sex, Lunch, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Looks, Body

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Patience, Healing, Patient

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• 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.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suicide, Trying, Want

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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