Great Poisonous Quotes

#1. I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

Sylvia Plath

#2. It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

Janet Suzman

#3. There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

Herman Melville

#4. The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

David Brooks

#5. Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

Milton H. Erickson

#6. His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

Victor Hugo

#7. Must the Earth forever be arranged like an ocean steamer, with large, luxurious rooms and luxurious food for a select few, and underneath in the steerage, where the great mass can barely breathe from dirt and the poisonous air?

Various

#8. When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

P.L. Travers