Best 376 quotes in «bitter quotes» category

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens.

Whoever says sleep equals laziness is probably a bitter insomniac.

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.'' ''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.

When I lived in New York and went to Chinatown, I learned that these flavors and their meanings were actually a foundation of ancient Chinese medicine. Salty translated to fear and the frantic energy that tries to compensate for or hide it. Sweet was the first flavor we recognized from our mother's milk, and to which we turned when we were worried and unsure or depressed. Sour usually meant anger and frustration. Bitter signified matters of the heart, from simply feeling unloved to the almost overwhelming loss of a great love. Most spices, along with coffee and chocolate, had some bitterness in their flavor profile. Even sugar, when it cooked too long, turned bitter. But to me, spice was for grief, because it lingered longest.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

You don’t have to be bitter in life. Focus on the beauty of life.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreams captured my attention so completely, that I didn't feel the bitter taste of coffee

You will soon regret the bitter words you fumed when you were angry.

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

A moment of prayerful reflection can prevent a lifetime of bitter regret.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Audiences feel no hatred from me. Because I'm not bitter.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

bitter is a bad way to live!

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

you clutter my mind thoughts of you, thoughts of me with you thoughts that keep me from rest that ull me to sleep at night your words are like butter they're smooth and they're rich and they make the bitter bits better

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

Captain Lone Wolf Gonzaullas was one of a kind. I'm sure he would agree to this truth, If you continuously compete with others, you will become bitter. If you constantly compete with yourself, you can become great.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.