Poisoned Chalice Quotes

#1. Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive ... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#2. That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

Catherine Tate

#3. She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.

Per Petterson

#4. The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

Giorgio Napolitano

#5. When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

Roxane Gay

#6. You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

Geoff Stults

#7. Even the most open person has a private, sacred place where no one else may go.

Rick Yancey

#8. Woman are a nuisance on Safari.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.

Richard Smalley

#10. He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.

Barry Lyga

#11. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood

Henry David Thoreau

#12. There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.

George Boole

#13. I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.

Chris Christie