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Quotes About Poisoned

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or a raincoat, queue up at a cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk to Ciudadela Park in the morning...
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
bitter recognition that his era had passed and the injury he had done to his family could not be undone and the moral failure that characterized his life had poisoned everything he touched and saw.
~ C.J. Box
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
~ George Balanchine
I'm willing to abandon the tender embrace of my future mother-in-law for your sake. About that, Aunt B said. I'm coming, too. Dead God, the cookie was poisoned.
~ Ilona Andrews
The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.
~ Neal Shusterman
A poisoned silence floated through the rooms like a big fishnet that Violet alone slashed through with loud recriminations.
~ Toni Morrison
All my memories are poisoned
~ George R.R. Martin
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Her soul was poisoned soil in which nothing good could grow.
~ Laini Taylor
This...this...thing?" "A parsnip?" Jem suggested "A parsnip planted in satan's own garden," said Will. He glanced about. "I dont suppose there's a dog I could feed it to?" "There dont seem to be any pets about," Jem-who loved animals, even the inglorious and ill-tempered Church-observed. "Probably all poisened by parsnips," said Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
~ Herbert Hoover, 1951
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
~ Henry Miller
Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.
~ Herman Melville
It was her fault. All these theorists talk about how she hired a hit man. Some even say she pulled the trigger, but that's bullshit. She poisoned him with herself, that's what she did. That's what I'm talking about.
~ Theresa Weir
He tried to recall his best moments with her, but those moments were poisoned forever.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lessons from jealousy and anger: sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned.
~ Terri Guillemets
You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.
~ Greg Palast
I think it was love at first sight for both of us; it just took us a little while to figure it out. That was understandable, considering we were being stuck with needles, shot through with radioactive particles, possibly poisoned by the horrific substances the hospital tried to pass off as food, and then, when we got discharged, running away and stealing cars together.
~ James Patterson
Two days after the chemo I felt terrible, like I had a permanent migraine and had been shot in every limb. I was knackered, starving. The doctor explained that was because I had essentially been poisoned.
~ Jeremy Kyle
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
~ Charlotte Bronte
As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
~ Oscar Wilde
As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.
~ Oscar Wilde
Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good leadership is pervasive persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
~ Marcia Lynn Whicker