Antidote Quotes
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Doused in an appeasing pink, Jaipur has, over the years, come to don the title of India’s “Pink City.” Rich in its historical heritage, every corner of Jaipur holds an interesting antidote and touch of old-world charm. The color of the city, too, has interesting stories & theories behind it.
Kate Smith— "India | Colorful Jaipur, Rajasthan The ‘Pink City'"
My illness was also my antidote: it cured me of laziness.
Lewis Addison Armistead— 2003 Referring to his recovery from cancer in Every Second Counts.
Constantly affirmed by our scientific experimentalistson, snake venom that ‘as yet no antidote to them has been found'. Remedies there are in abundance and it is just as great an error to believe that all snake venom is curable.
— In p.532 (Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life)
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
virginia woolf— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929), ch. 5.
There is no antidote against the opium of time.
— 1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.
O, she is the antidote to desire.
william congreve— Act IV, scene xiv.
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
gordon b. hinckley— Discussing the death of his wife with Larry King, 2004.
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
erica jong— (About Men)
Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.
george c. lorimer— P. 282. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
sigurd olson— "We Need Wilderness," National Parks Magazine, January–March 1946
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
david brin— Ch. 1 (The Transparent Society (1998))
Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
ronald fisher— 31 May 1929, in a letter to K.Sisam, Oxford University Press. Printed in Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics, p.20, ed. J.H.Bennett, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
The antidote for fear is the promise of God’s presence. God is with you. “For He has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’”(Heb 13:5)
james macdonald— p. 33 (Always True (Moody, 2011))
[T]rade, not democracy, is the best antidote to war.
ilana mercer— "The Warmongers: Not Looking Out For Us" WorldNetDaily.com, September 26, 2013.
The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
camille paglia— Break, Blow, Burn (2005)
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
erwin rommel— Ch. 11 : The Initiative Passes, p. 244
The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
e. o. wilson— "Can biology do better than faith?". NewScientist.com. 2 November 2005. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act V, scene 1.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith— Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature And Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776, 1801), Vol. 2, 314.
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
— Erwin Rommel, as quoted in The Rommel Papers (1982) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Gross National Happiness is a function of personal decisions and individual actions as surely as little drops of water make the mighty ocean . Gross National Happiness is more than an antidote to Gross National Product. It is an anodyne that can heal the wounds of our ailing planet and still the tooth that nibbles at the soul .
— Kuensel, in As the World Looks to Bhutan…, kuenselonline, 21 March 2014
[T]rade, not democracy, is the best antidote to war.
— "The Warmongers: Not Looking Out For Us" WorldNetDaily.com, September 26, 2013.
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Letter LXXII.
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
david brin— David Brin, The Transparent Society, Ch. 1 (1998)
