Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

- Carrie Fisher

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

- F. Sionil Jose

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

- Edward Kennedy

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

- Emile M. Cioran

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

- Edwin Land

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

- Derrick Rose

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

- Chuck Schumer

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

- Christopher Hitchens

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

- Christopher Hitchens

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

- Chanakya

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

- Alfred Nobel

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

- Cameron Diaz

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

- Bill McCollum

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

- Ben Nelson

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

- Buddy Hackett

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

- Bret Michaels

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

- Anne Sexton

It's a terrible poison, writing.

- A. S. Byatt

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

- Andre Maurois

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

- Ambrose Bierce