Bitter Quotations

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

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.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

I'm not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.

'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

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

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

With them losing in the first round of the tournament to St. Ignatius, there are definitely some bitter feelings. There are definitely some games in the back of their heads that they'd like to have seen end differently last year. They want to maintain the tradition.

Yes, honey...Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

We've got more bus space than people and I'm not going to send them off empty. We are going to hold empty buses until the bitter end.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

There are movie sites that love movies and there are movie sites that are just bitter people that just hate movies. I find Movieline to be in the latter. The tone is bizarrely hateful.

There is definitely a certain proportion of this population for whom the only way to deal with humiliation - the only way to regain respect - is through violence. This is a place where many people don't look for ways to resolve a dispute. They take all matters to the very bitter end.

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

Simon Wiesenthal ... personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. ... Despite this, I was always touched by the fact that he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others . . . personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. Despite this, I was always touched by the fact that he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that have this variant form, they can tolerate higher concentrations of this bitter compound without it tasting nasty to them.

Most people that we talk to are more excited to support him. They're more bitter at the media over the way he was treated. They feel like this was a horrible thing that happened ... and the media only cared about themselves instead of the condition of the man (who was shot).

My ... agenda is only a beginning ? but it is a gateway through which we must step if we are to get back to the road map, and move to a settlement of this bitter and wasteful conflict,

My government is taking part in this agreement without any enthusiasm, but as someone taking a bitter yet useful potion or medication,

One of the bitter ironies of this to me, this whole thing, is that we were so fundamentally superior in our bid to anyone else in the world that everyone knew we were going to win,

I would rather they go out and kick our butt with honest hits and get 10 hits and beat us 6-1. It is a bitter pill to go out and play badly, run the bases badly and make errors.

I don't have bitter feelings about South America. I don't feel like they're trying to put us out of business. We're just trying to participate in a global economy.

I don't have that bitter taste in my mouth any more, ... I went 0-11 last year, so it feels real good to get a win, especially at home. It's nice to be back home where I have fans behind me whether I lose or win.

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

I am bitter and absolutely disgusted with the attitude we have shown. This result has done a lot of damage to our promotion hopes. We now have 12 cup finals to the end of the season.

I am a very bitter man. It's a small wonder the public's confidence in the judicial system has eroded. I am personally repulsed by the procedures.

I am pumped to come back to Laredo because this is where I wanted to be, ... Losing in the Finals last season left a bitter taste in my mouth and we are hoping to win it all this year.

I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

I have a bitter taste in my mouth now, but the memories are sweet. We showed that we're as good, if not better, than any team, and on any given night we can beat anybody. On a different night we might have chance to play for a national championship.

I have a bitter taste after this victory.

I feel real bad for Marc-Andre. He did a great job. You could say there's a bitter irony in this.

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

If it's too bitter then you might be leaving it for too long, or using too much.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you

If we run into them in the tournament, I certainly would expect our guys to have a chip on their shoulders. There are some bitter feelings. ... We want to show people why we got that seed.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

He (Robson) has different plans that's all, I'm not bitter about it. It's up to him.

He's demanding to the bitter end. There is no prevent defense in our book. He expects a lot but you want to do it for him. You understand where he's coming from.