Famous Quotes & Sayings

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

Tom Wilkinson

I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus.

It would be easy to be bitter about the experience, but in life that was only a breath.

It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

This was a bitter pill to swallow. This was one we felt we could get. We couldn't pull it off.

Lucretius

What is food to one is to another bitter poison.

Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

What happened to me is not that important in the scheme of things, he said. But what is happening to the judiciary is tremendously important to all Americans. So, I'm not bitter - my spirits are good. My faith has not been weakened. God's grace indeed is sufficient.

Adam Baldwin

There's a definite Boy-named-Sue bitterness emanating from Jayne. You don't cross him, you don't trust him. But you want him on your side in a fight.

Buck Martinez

I sensed it was a kind of a bitter moment for them both. I've known them both for a long time, and we really thought they would bring a lot to our team. Then we got down into the numbers of the things and it just didn't work out.

William Butler Yeats

The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

I'm most influenced by people I hate, since most everything I do stems from bitterness and anger. Off the top of my head, I think Gwen Stefani is pretty useless.

It's playoffs, and there was a little bitter taste in our mouths (from last season).

Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out

Harriet Stowe

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

Thomas Doll

That is the most bitter part of this evening and I have to digest it first.

Ivica Kostelic

It really leaves a bitter taste. It is shameful.

Jim Crace

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

I have six children - and four of them still have to get to college. I have a home. I have a family, and my family is suffering too. But we're all in this together, and we have no choice but to stick together until the bitter end. I just hope the end will come soon.

Rick James

I'm very bitter about how I've been treated, there are some things I want to bring into the light, I'm glad I came here. This is the longest time I've been straight and sober. But if I wanted to get high tomorrow - my drug of choice-I could do it in this penitentiary. It comes with the territory. But I fight the feeling.

Michael Vick

That loss to Philadelphia left a bitter taste in our mouths, but our motivation is to come back this year and try to top that, ... I'm excited about where I'm at right now. I can imagine what the future holds as I continue to play in this offense.

Samuel Butler

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Erika Jo

It was kind of bitter sweet for me. He wanted to be there. He wanted a record deal. But in a way he did get it because he's living it through me. He's just excited for me and he's very supportive.

I've learned of life this bitter truth/ Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,/ But rather,/ Build within thy own soul/ Fortresses!

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

This left a bitter taste in my mouth. Losing a championship game is the worst feeling in the world.

This leaves a real bitter taste in my mouth.

Sarah McLachlan

In the lonely light of morning, in a world that would not heal, it's the bitter taste of losing everything that I've held so dear

I get a little bitter about New Orleans, because they knew what was going to happen.

Noam Chomsky

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

Robert Burton

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee

I feel bitter after being just one point away from the final, but it was a good week and a great way to start the year.

Li Zhaoxing

However, we will not repeat the past bitter history of turbulence and instability in the world resulted from the rise of a big power, but seek a road that a new rising nation has never taken,