Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case. — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For me, my first big heartbreak is actually sports-related. The team went out and got spanked on our home field. I'll never… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
