Bitter Quotes

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I love life too much to be bitter.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.