#poison

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#humor #love #poisonwood-bible #business

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#beat #bitter #days #freedom #head

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#ceos #company #financially #innovative #needs

If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#poison #humor

Stirred up pride is poison to the soul. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#poison #pride #soul #life

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#maria-v-snyder #poison-study #valek #love

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#greed #money #murder #poison #men

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#poison #drama

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures. ↗

— Steven Brust

#die #each #earth #fail #failures

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#backstreet #band #metal #poison #pop