Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Dean Koontz

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Tom Watson

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

Todd Solondz

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

She was rescued by her neighbors and hospitalized. Friends accompanied her during surgery and contributed blood. Her recovery took several months. She didn't let bitterness hold her back. She resumed teaching and studying international affairs.

Edith Cavell

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Victoria Osteen

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Agatha Christie

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

Mark Richard

My first thought was that in some way, I needed to bring honor to God through this situation and not show any bitterness because that would not help my children at all,

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about ... people will have differences of opinion,

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing,

(My dad) had a great time (umpiring). He lived through a lot. He lived through the woes of segregation, and there's not a drop of bitterness from him or the other men I've interviewed throughout the years.

Alain de Botton

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Anne Sexton

I grow old on my bitterness.

Confucius

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

E. B. White

We can choose how to think about and react to disappointment, ... At the extremes, one line of thought leads to bitterness and a shriveled soul. The other leads to wisdom and growth.

John Fund

I think the bitterness generated by this election should prompt people of good will in both parties to try and find common ground, or as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd put it, ""Make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.

Orison Swett Marden

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

You just hope the bitterness and rancor don't continue, and that everybody finds a peaceable ending. Watching a train wreck ? or listening to one ? isn't a great way to spend your morning.

Anthony Shadid

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Sathya Baba

Offer all bitterness in the sacred Fire and emerge grand, great and godly.

First, there was no bitterness after Salt Lake City, she did what she needed to do.

Mary McAleese

This child who talks about scattering the seeds of peace over our land has told us from his grave we have to renew and recommit ourselves no matter how much provocation, no matter how much hurt, no matter how much bitterness or anger,

Sam Roberts

There was no trace of bitterness in his voice.

It seems like there's still some lingering bitterness between the governor and the legislators. He's working to mend some fences, but the legislators don't seem receptive to the idea.

Gillian Jacobs

Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.

Fran Lebowitz

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

Guy de Maupassant

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Bitterness is a choice that usually comes after you encounter personal injustice. Choose Love. It is easier to live with.

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.