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  • We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.

    Fall   Power   Men  
    Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
  • Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  • I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

    Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.254, Applewood Books
  • Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  • Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

    Class   Snakes   Weather  
    Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.194, Prestwick House Inc
  • Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

    War   Long   People  
    Nevil Shute (2010). “Requiem for a Wren”, p.246, Random House
  • Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights

    Weed   Rap   Eye  
    Song: Buckingham Palace, Album: Can-I-Bus, 1998
  • Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

    Evil   Speech   Foolish  
    Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen
  • I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert's review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger.

    Writing   Mean   Thinking  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12
  • Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

    Angel   Men   Light  
    Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155
  • They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences: for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he has experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment, and his Observations, to his Own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.

    Truth   Science   Past  
    "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".
  • Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

    Sweet   Book   Reading  
  • And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

    Life   Running   Nature  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12
  • To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

    1974 Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.
  • Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

    Snakes   Matter   Walks  
  • I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

    "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin -- Part 5: Don't Try This at Home". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.
  • The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

    Stars   War   Science  
    "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.
  • Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

  • Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

    Wisdom   Snakes   Should  
  • If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

    Dog   Law   Mad  
  • Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

  • war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

    War   Animal   History  
    Adrienne Mayor (2009). “Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World”, Duckworth Publishing
  • In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.

    Soul   Ignorant   Meat  
    Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111
  • There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.

    Hero   Gay   Rights  
    "The Rage Is Not About Health Care". www.nytimes.com. March 27, 2010.
  • Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.

    Trying   Savages   Pearls  
    Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.177, Penguin
  • I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins) I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in) I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison

    Hurt   Kissing   Names  
    Song: Poison
  • You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.

    "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.
  • Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

    War   Numbers   Cold  
    Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing
  • The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.

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