Bitter Quotes

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Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we… — Marianne Williamson
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris
[it] may have hastened his move to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this is successful, will… — Roger Wicker
A moment of prayerful reflection can prevent a lifetime of bitter regret. — Woodrow M. Kroll
At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds.… — Eknath Easwaran
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies… — John Oliver Killens
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. — Diane Ackerman
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. — Albert Einstein
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough… — John Brown
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried… — Dale Carnegie
Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand,… — Tommy Franks
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother… — Alexander the Great
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and… — James Elroy Flecker
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted… — Woodrow Wilson
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that… — Teresa of Avila
Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end. — Douglas Adams

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