It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled… — Zoe Akins Copy Share Image
Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle;… — M. N. Roy Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. — John Milton Copy Share Image
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are so unbelievably vitriolic on the Internet because I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
