Bitterly Quotes
106 quotes by 95 authors
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is…
— John Baillie
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O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved…
— Brigit of Kildare
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young…
— Doris Lessing
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The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before…
— Christiaan Barnard
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they…
— Sarah Palin
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If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate…
— Philip K. Chapman
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where…
— Wilhelm II
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
— Sylvia Plath
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Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.
— Graham Hancock
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
— Edward Abbey
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Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped…
— George H. W. Bush
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
— Barry Commoner
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it…
— Adrienne Rich
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril…
— Winston Churchill
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend…
— Oscar Wilde
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I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar,…
— Andre Benjamin
Who Wrote These Bitterly Quotes
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