Best 376 quotes in «bitter quotes» category

There is healing in the bitter cup.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

The wife, or bitter half.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!

Though negative things have happened to me, God somehow let me know that becoming bitter was not the way to go. You die when you do that. Someone once told me that if you fully open your arms to receive love, you'll get some scratches and cuts on your arms, but a lot of love will come in. If you close your arms, you might never get cut - but the good stuff won't come in either.

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

unfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.

Your so bitter, like kitty litter.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.