Bitter Quotes - Page 27

• "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, School, Sorrow

  "The Cry of the Human" l. 7 (1844)

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• The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Sweet, Work, Rain

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• It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

  Charles Kuralt

  Happiness, Running, Spring

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Character, Adversity, Responsibility

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• Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Time, Art, Treasure

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soul, World, Affliction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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• Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

  Oswald Chambers

  Sweet, Believe, Blessing

  "Faith: A Holy Walk".

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• The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

  Craig Groeschel

  Mirrors, Roots, People

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• As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.

  Satoru Iwata

  Successful, Trying, Wii

  "Wii U In "Final Form" At E3 2012" by Richard George, www.ign.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.

  Paul Nash

  War, Fighting, Men

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• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Blow, Wind, Squash

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• There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

  Jeff Garcia

  Football, Struggle, Games

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Toil, Masters

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.364, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christmas, Memories, Joy

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• Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

  Oswald Mosley

  Struggle, Fighting, Land

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “The Greater Britain”, p.132, Black House Publishing Ltd

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

  Beth Ditto

  Shame, Charming, Poor

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will be my strengthening. But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking.

  Walter Russell

  Drinking, Thinking, Giving

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• If I should stay
  I would only be in your way
  So I'll go, but I know
  I'll think of you each step of the way
  And I will always love you
  I will always love you
  Bitter sweet Memories
  That's all I am taking with me
  Good-bye. Please don't cry
  We both know that I'm not
  What you need
  But I will always love you
  I will always love you.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Sweet, Memories

  "I Will Always Love You". Song by Dolly Parton, June 6, 1974.

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• Sometimes I've been to cryin' for unborn children
  That might have made me complete
  But I, I took the sweet life and never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
  I spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that cost too much to be free
  Hey lady, I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

  Maureen McGovern

  Song, Sweet, Children

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Past, Light, Justice

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• You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.

  Ralph Bunche

  Hard Work, Persistence, Path

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• 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.

  Tori Amos

  Survivor, Want, Locked Up

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

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