People can poison people; people can also promote people. People can push people up; people can also pull people down. Don’t just follow people cheerfully; follow people carefully!

You have poisoned me.

Poison is like the drowned; it always floats.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere...

There are people who are destined to taste only the poison in things, for whom any surprise is a painful surprise and any experience a new occasion for torture. if someone were to say to...

He wouldn’t call a glass of water half full or half empty; he’d assume it was poisoned and run away.

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Bride of Beimerstetten, bride of Beimerstetten, bride of Beimerstetten, naked bride of Beimerstetten,” and he imagines a procession of proud military men blowing trumpets as they stomp through a bomb-devastated town to the tune of...

Upendeleo na msamaha ni sumu na baraka ya usuluhishi miongoni mwa watu kwa mpangilio huo. Yaani, upendeleo ni sumu ya usuluhishi, msamaha ni baraka ya usuluhishi. Usuluhishi wenye msamaha, usiokuwa na upendeleo wowote, ni dawa...

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down...

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

Obelmäker is eating at his desk, a habit both Baumauer and Pissec find repulsive.

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of...

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays,...

Death is a poison parsley on a dessert wine.

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—

Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.

Baumauer wants a life in which he cannot be belittled, judged or controlled by worse men.

One man’s poison ivy is another man’s spinach.

As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the same sap for kind that the Arm of the tree hath,...

Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo berrei.”Dialogo tra Lady Astor e Winston Churchill

true apothecary thy drugs art quick

Live or die, but don’t poison everything.

I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

You’d be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.

Shame comes in different doses.

Kalist is in his office with the door shut, secretly adding the final touches to his new Brichacek doll; she’s got rosy, plaster cheeks and his nose hairs for pubes, although he thinks he might...

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan’s pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his throat. His dripping ears were flat to his skull, fire crackled in his...

I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had...

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

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

Obelmäker always suspected Kalist of being a driven man with a determined selfishness that verged on sociopathic, but he actually appears to be suffering for once, in a humane way, like one who has been...

This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not?(“The Wondersmith”)

So? I know damn well that I didn’t poison her.”Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder

What people don’t understand about depression is how much it hurts. It’s like your brain is convinced that it’s dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that’s...

..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.

I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill… It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our...

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.

Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.