Antidote Quotes - Page 5

• Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

  Ken Follett

  Fear, Action

  Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan

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• Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

  Daniel Handler

  Cheer, Eye, Snakes

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-
  Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Use, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

  Howard Rheingold

  Surveillance, Participation, Openness

  "Howard Rheingold about our mobile world". Interview with Roland Piquepaille, www.zdnet.com. July 20, 2006.

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• She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Hatred, Poison

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Inspiration, Important

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

  Lawrence Summers

  Strong, Dangerous Ideas, Evil

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• A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Hot, Red, Panic

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Caprice

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• The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.

  John Pilger

  Mirrors, Media, Supportive

  Source: progressive.org

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• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Anxiety, Attention

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Inspirational, Persistence, Order

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• While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

  Andy Stanley

  Generosity, Effort, May

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.

  Frances Trollope

  Believe, Knights, Race

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• Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

  John Herschel

  Important, Normal, Action

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• Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

  Bram Stoker

  Mood, Terror

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.121, Bram Stoker

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• After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Principles, World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.17, Random House

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• Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, World, Affliction

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• The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Work, Worry, Always Believe

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• When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

  Sue Grafton

  Perfect, House, Cleaning

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan

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• Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

  Dorothea Dix

  Evil, Ill

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• Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

  Michael Palin

  Travel, Bugs, Wander

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• Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

  Mary McCarthy

  Laughter, Self, Wind

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