Bitter Quotes - Page 31

• The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Roots, Fruit

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• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Yield, Order

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.

  Stephen Spender

  America, Years, Two

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• Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

  Richard Sibbes

  Sweet, Sin, Reckoning

  Richard Sibbes (1837). “The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith”, p.206

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• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sacrifice, Selfishness, Doctrine

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• 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.

  Joel Osteen

  Helping, Defeat, Like You

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• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Laughing, Demand, Cucumbers

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

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• We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand.

  Omar Khayyam

  Thinking, Smell, Giving

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Blessing, Handicaps

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• I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

  William Petersen

  Actors, Saws, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I will tell you is the antidote to [Donald] Trump is a very strong progressive agenda that says, yes, I know you`re angry. And you know what? You should be angry because you`re working longer hours for low wages. You have a right to be bitter and you have a right to be that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Strong, Wages, Agendas

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• One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Beautiful, Ugly Things, Destination

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• Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Pills, Normal, Rail

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• I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Mother, Father, Used

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Attitude, Forgiving, Mind

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hot, Burning, Dry

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• If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, People, Religion

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• I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

  Emma Thompson

  Awards, Empires, Crosses

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• [on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.

  Peter Dinklage

  Wall, Problem, Realizing

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• A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Years, People

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• Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, People, Racist

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• The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Dog, Light, Race

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• We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

  Amy Purdy

  Pain, May, Facts

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• My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.

  Martin Munkacsi

  Years, Trying Everything, Berries

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• The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Evil, Looks

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