#poison

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #bad #because #chemotherapy #feel

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arm #attitude #clinic #feel #feels

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#disintegrating #education #ever #invented #liberalism

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#even #harmless #impulses #most #poisonous

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#become #degrees #men #poison

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#forces #forgotten #gave #great #his

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#early #food #had #late #poison

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#jealousy #poisonous #potential #self-doubt #experience