Poisonous Quotations

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy that is able to distinguish between healthy and cancer cells could be less difficult to endure for those with cancer.

I think they are more concerned about poisonous snakes, though,

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

Steven Spielberg could not have put together a film as dramatic as this. To see people wading in poisonous water, coming into the downtown area with families, asking 'Where do we go? Where are the police?,' and people sleeping on highway rampsno one expected that.

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

We communicated to the patients that the carbon monoxide they inhale from smoking cigarettes is the same poisonous gas that comes out of the tail pipe of their car.

There have been some questions marks in the British coverage about how damaging, how poisonous this pre-trial publicity will be. And the people in Britain now are very interested to see whether Entwistle is looking at a fair trial or something along the lines of a long, slow lynching in the state of Massachusetts.

Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.

People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.

O Saints, meditate constantly on the Name of the Lord, and cross over the terrifying, poisonous world ocean.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Your statutory powers to consider these matters are explicitly set forth in New Mexico Food Act (25-2-1 through 25-2-19) poisonous & deleterious food adulteration is the province of the EIB; your powers in that regard are very precise.

They said they have no special suits and equipment to battle the thick smoke and toxic fumes from inside the tunnel. They told us they will come back in two days, waiting for the poisonous gas to blow away.

Almost all the fields and walks of life are polluted with these poisonous feelings; but the field of education, being the most prominent organ, needs our special attention.

It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselves in a jungle full of a number of poisonous snakes.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Taylor ushered in the poisonous concept of soft rock.

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke. - (Deep Thoughts) Saturday Night Live

In thought, word and deed, seek the Support of the Lord of the Universe; thus you shall be saved from the poisonous world-ocean.

Secrets can be poisonous.

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.