“The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take… — Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson Copy Share Image
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Here are the top three things I’ve learned in my twenty-two years on the planet: 1. Never wipe your butt with poison… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot!… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think… — John Corabi Copy Share Image
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish… — Henry James Copy Share Image
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One can only wonder about a country that calls itself the greatest nation on Earth and silently radiation poisons its mass population.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; /… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had... I wish I had enough poison for you… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
