Quotes About Poison

Back in the buffalo days, the Cheyenne prophet Sweet Medicine had seen a vision of men with hair on their faces who would come bringing a white sand that was poison to Indians. The prophecy had come true, the white sand was sugar, and Adeline blamed the white man for poisoning her right up to two hundred pounds.

Have you never met anyone who works in a record store? There's no greater repository of unjustified arrogance in the world. I'd poison my employees if I thought I could find replacements.

The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.

Anger is a poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. …

Ä°yi bir av bu, William Birader, ama geceleri dikkatli olun.' 'Niçin gündüzleri deÄŸil?' 'Çünkü burada gündüzleri bedenler yararl? otlarla iyileÅŸtirilir; geceleriyse kafalar zehirli otlarla hasta edilir.

Poetry… it consumed Sappho's young years, it nourished Goethe's old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.

I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough. I was savoring the first drops of the poison that would carry us all to perdition.

Ya te he dicho que el límite entre el veneno y la medicina es bastante tenue, los griegos usaban la misma palabra, pharmacon, para referirse a los dos.

The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,             Bloom well in prison air;           It is only what is good in Man             That wastes and withers there;           Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,             And the Warder is Despair.

Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii

pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

There was a poison in him...and I drank it up.

The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-" Wood...poison." No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.

You didn't feed from her," he said, and this was not a question. "Swill poison? Not my kind of fun, little brother." One corner of Stefan's mouth quirked up. He made no response to this, but simply looked at Damon with eyes that were... knowing. Damon bridled. "I told the truth!" "Going to take it up as a hobby?

She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.

Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare. "The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.

Unless... " Now he looked at her in surprise. "Unless what?" She jabbed a finger at his shoulder. "When did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare. "The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

I'm beginning to think,' she said, 'that growing means learning more and more about anguish. That poison becomes your diet-- you drink a little of it everyday. Once you've seen it, you can't stop seeing it-- that's the trouble. And it can, it can' -- she passed her hand wearily over her brown again-- 'drive you mad.

It was the Lord who knew of the impossibility every parent in that room faced: how to prepare the child for the day when the child would be despised and how to create in the child - by what means? - a stronger antidote to this poison than one had found for oneself.

I'm beginning to think," she said, "that growing just means learning more and more about anguish. That poison becomes your diet—you drink a little of it every day. Once you've seen it, you can't stop seeing it—that's the trouble. And it can, it can"—she passed her hand wearily over her brow again—"drive you mad.