Bitterly Quotes
106 Bitterly quotes by 93 unique authors
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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were…
— A.C. Grayling
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... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably…
— Charles Dickens
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Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor…
— Mario Cuomo
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By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.
— Merlin Mann
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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission,…
— Lewis Nkosi
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I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines…
— Jan Karon
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It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
— Eric Bana
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience…
— John McCain
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Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money
— Unknown Author
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Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done…
— William Osler
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Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All…
— Dorothy Parker
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People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly…
— Elvis Costello
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a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow…
— Stephen King
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Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she,…
— James M. Barrie
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS…
— Terry Pratchett
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Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For…
— Noam Chomsky
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But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture…
— Kenneth Grahame
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How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because…
— Yann Martel
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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who…
— Helene Hanff
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From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the…
— Tom Perrotta
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