Bitter Quotes - Page 32

• The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Spiritual, Sweet, Character

  Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Block, Years, People

  "Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

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• A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Nice, Selfish, Thinking

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• My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Moving, Home

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.

  George Greenstein

  Dog, Pain, Lying

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

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Jesus, Thinking, Unnecessary

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• There are bitter weeds in England.

  Winston Churchill

  Weed, England

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

  Georg Ebers

  Sorrow, Tactics, Enthusiasm

  Georg Ebers (2015). “Serapis”, p.397, BookRix

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• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

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• A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

  Bob Barr

  War, Fall, Approval Rating

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• A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

  O. Henry

  Sugar Coating, Pills, Stories

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Drinking, Careers, Drunk

  "Gilbert Gottfried on his Amazing Colossal Podcast, Aladdin, and surviving SNL". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. January 06, 2016.

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• Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter for us to see the process of assimilation, the mixing of Jewish and non-Jewish. But when it comes to the relations of state and religions, the basics have not changed since Rabin's times.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Israel, Community, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Long, Empowering

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Believe, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.

  Elton John

  Football, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

  David Longstreth

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

  Bradford Cox

  Running, Rocks, Medicine

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've prayed that I wouldn't become bitter, that I wouldn't remain angry, that I would just give all of it to God and let Him handle it. There have been moments where I felt myself going that way, and I have people around me who will help me.

  Frances Newton

  People, Giving, Way

  "Frances Newton: Faith on Death Row". Interview with Terry Meeuwsen, www.cbn.com.

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• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

  Laura Mullen

  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People don't realize where unsweet tea came from. During the war they had to ration sugar, so then everybody just had to drink bitter tea, or unsweet.

  Si Robertson

  War, People, Tea

  Source: www.gq.com

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• And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

  Mike Pesca

  Sweet, Believe, Roots

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• We all know people who say: "It's the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold onto their anger or hurt, they bleed away their energy reserves, often ending up bitter and depressed.

  Doc Childre

  Hurt, Anger, Years

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• Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.

  Francis Frangipane

  Christian, Evil, Hatred

  Francis Frangipane (2013). “The Power Of Covenant Prayer”, p.114, Charisma Media

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• When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.

  Zicheng Hong

  Kings, Attitude, Powerful

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