Bitter Quotes - Page 35

• I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Children, Kids

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• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  Lady Gaga

  Cake, Jelly

  "Lady Gaga's new album 'finished'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

  Teri Garr

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

  Mel Gibson

  Stronger, I Have Learned, Makes You Stronger

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• I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.

  Mel Gibson

  Interesting, Stronger, I Have Learned

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• 'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Long, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Journey, Bravery

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.540, eBookIt.com

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• Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

  Jewel

  Hard Times, Compassionate, Hard

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• Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

  Anne Lamott

  Birthday, People, Going The Extra Mile

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• I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Psychics, Helping

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• Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Kids, Years

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• I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

  Denis Leary

  Jealous, Long, People

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• A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

  David Lynch

  Strong, Real, Creativity

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• I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

  Steven Morrissey

  Wrecks, Way, Found

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• Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

  David Ogilvy

  Rare Occasion, Tests, Fields

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Mistake, Mad

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Envy, Leader

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I love life too much to be bitter.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Love Life, Too Much, I Love Life

  "Sarkozy Tells His Aides He Is Quitting Active Politics" by Sanya Khetani, www.businessinsider.com. May 07, 2012.

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• I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Thinking, Grows

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• God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Sweet, Laughter, Sadness

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.53, Penguin

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• You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Issues, People

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  "The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

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• To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Letting Go, Sea, Personality

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• But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

  William Carlos Williams

  Wall, Liars, Mushrooms

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Violence, Killing, Paradox

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