Bitter Quotes · Page 31

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

— Hope Solo

People expect me to be angry, bitter. They expect to me be abrasive, aggressive. I'm not.

— Tomi Lahren

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

— David Jeremiah

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

— Douglas Coupland

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

— Juvenal

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

— Orrin Woodward

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter…

— Maurice Jarre

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can…

— Charles Frazier

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn…

— George Cukor

There is love in your body but you can't get it out, it gets stuck in your head, won't come out of…

— Anonymous

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to…

— Charles Spurgeon

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat…

— George Grosz

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit,…

— Bhartrhari

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which…

— Earl Warren

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments…

— Emma Goldman

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern…

— Harry S. Truman

Though negative things have happened to me, God somehow let me know that becoming bitter was not the way to go. You…

— Quincy Jones

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of…

— John the Apostle

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns…

— John Milton

Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense,…

— Daphne du Maurier

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting…

— Arthur C. Clarke

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing…

— Robert Musil

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

— Eliza Lynn Linton

unfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing

— Cassandra Clare

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste…

— Elia Kazan

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

— Margaret Deland

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

— Thomas Pynchon

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

— Nicole Kidman

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and…

— Anonymous

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

— John Milton

I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.

— Richard Cohen

Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

— William Butler Yeats

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

— James St. James

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

— Caroline Anne Southey

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

— Steve Martin

I’ve found that God often lets us taste how sweet he is in our most bitter moments.

— Andy Mineo