“I am bitter sometimes but the taste has often been sweet. it's only that I've feared to say it. it's like when… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's… — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking… — William Thomas Green Morton Copy Share Image
If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
One of the last times that we played in the area before I wrote "Allentown," I remember a guy coming up to… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We all know people who say: "It's the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
“Our pain can refine us or make us bitter. We can look at the world with deeper grace or we can build… — Natasha Metzler Copy Share Image
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of… — Frederick Russell Burnham Copy Share Image
I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Bitter the day of birth, for death is its companion. Yet, though life be cold and cruel, we are not without a… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins,… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit… — James Guida Copy Share Image
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry… — Mary Carolyn Davies Copy Share Image
Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the… — Belle Starr Copy Share Image
![“We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e8/ronald-reagan-119_acceptable_we-in-america-have-learned-bitter-lesson_1332203.jpg)
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