Bitter Quotes - Page 16

• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  Nadia Giosia

  Sweet Love, Oil, Quality

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

  Charles Durning

  War, Frustrated, Tears

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• I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

  Al Roker

  Real, Kids, Successful

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• I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Memories, Japan, Gold

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• Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

  Eva Gabrielsson

  Eye, Fighting, People

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• God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he controls everything we do. It doesn't mean he puts a bridle on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his. When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response. But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the bitter end.

  Barbara Johnson

  God, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Good Luck, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

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• And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Grandma, Fate

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.65, Penguin UK

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• There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Healing, Water

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 19: "Jesus Poems", p. 204, 1995.

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• Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Disappointment, Sacrifice

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Moving, Discipline

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• I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessed, Sick, Healthy

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

  James E. Faust

  Sweet, Stars, Adversity

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• Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reason, Bitter Experience, Worth It

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• Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

  Thomas Brooks

  Sweet, Sin, Prove

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• Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

  Izaak Walton

  Children, Adversity, Soul

  Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1839). “The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises”, p.27

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• See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Garden, Sweat

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.404, CCEL

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• I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sweet, Wine, Men

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.44, U of Nebraska Press

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• E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Heart, Men

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ NARRATIVE – Memoirs of an American Slave, Freedom Fighter & Statesman: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & My Bondage and My Freedom”, p.98, e-artnow

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

  Rajneesh

  Sweet, Reality, Luxury

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• There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

  Danny Dyer

  Jobs, Hate, Keys

  "Interview: Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan". Interview with Samantha Peliza, uk.askmen.com.

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• It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.

  Fiona Apple

  Blue

  Song: On The Bound, Album: When The Pawn..., 1999

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• I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

  Robert E. Lee

  Rights, People, Feelings

  "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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