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Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.
I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.
I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
As somebody who happens to be gay, I particularly resent that minorities are being encouraged to be fragile and bitter.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
It's one thing to be bitter about something, but it's another thing to recognise the growth and the change that you made.
Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.
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.
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.
I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
You don't want people to think, 'Oh, she was a person who was bitter because she didn't win.' You can't always win at everything.
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!
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
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.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
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.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
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.
Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
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.
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
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.
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
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.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.