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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

He was prescient. What can I tell you? He was a Jewish soothsayer. One of the things I admire stylistically is how he was able to give you the bitter pill with such good laughs.

He was bitter and sad after the war. It was the dividing point in the Marston family. Before the war, the family lived in Clinton. After the war, they lived in north Louisiana.

He kept his wit and humor right to the bitter end.

He (John) wanted to make the arena better for its users while finding a home for our sports hall of fame. I will be thinking of him constantly during construction, as will many people. His example and memory will make it bitter sweet indeed, but very pride-filled.

Harvesting at optimal maturity is extremely important as far as flavor is concerned. We know from previous research and from the industry that when immature peanut kernels are processed, they develop a bitter or off-flavor taste.

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

It could happen in any game, but you know what? I don't hold any grudges. He's probably bitter still, but I'm just going to continue to pray for him, and hopefully it will get better, his temper will change. I still have respect for his bat, he's a good hitter and I'm just going to continue to do what I have to do. And I was glad that, when I'm OK, I don't need to hit anybody.

I thought we did a hell of a job. From the start of the game to the bitter end, the desperation was there.

I think this is going to turn out to be a bitter divorce.

It is not an easy choice. I understand that this is a bitter pill but I have to do it to save the country's economy and the country's future,

I think that what we heard ... is devastating to the White House. Now we know why the White House fought right to the bitter end on disallowing those videotapes from coming to the floor.

I think that what we heard ... is devastating to the White House, ... Now we know why the White House fought right to the bitter end on disallowing those videotapes from coming to the floor.

Our guys were a little bitter after Friday's loss, so we did come out hungry. That's the type of attitude we need to have on the court. I'm real proud that all 15 kids went out there. It was a total team effort.

Our film's a sort of political action. Maybe 60 or 70 percent of what happens on screen is factually true. Turkey and America are allies, but Turkey wants to say something to its friend. We want to say the bitter truth. We want to say that this is wrong.

Overall, there's no question we took a hit across the board to some degree. But we've discovered a rebound effect is already under way. A number of American patients test-drove Medicare. ... Now they are returning to us in larger ... numbers after they have experienced the bitter fruit of Medicare.

Our reaction is one of bitter disappointment. British car industry jobs are being sacrificed on the altar of this country's flexible labor market.

Terror leaves bitter enemies. The poison stays long in the well. The purpose, after all, is not to achieve military victory, but to achieve a change in circumstances by terror, to make us afraid of today, afraid of tomorrow, afraid of each other. Therefore, it cannot win unless we become admitting accomplices, changing the way we think and feel and live.

Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe, A tale of folly and of wasted life, Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife, Ending, where all things end, in death at last.

lives in a constant state of tension wherein she must never display or divulge her true feelings for her father because of the mother's all-consuming and bitter feelings toward me.

I won't be celebrating either way because the method and timing has caused so many bitter feelings to resurface. Give feelings a chance to heal and work with what you have. It isn't all that bad.

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

I still put on the skates once in a while, but I do not look back. I had a great career. I hope to have a great career in boxing, too. I am not bitter at the way some people may look at me. Sure, I am trying to turn my image around and be a lady. But you can be a lady, and an athlete, too.

I still love Rachel very, very much indeed and I hope and pray that she will eventually come back. There has been no bitter bust-up and no one else is involved. It is not about something I've done and it's not about something she has done.

It doesn't have a bitter or dry finish, ... It finishes quick enough that you want to follow it immediately with another swallow.

It hasn't sunk in that we lost. I have a bitter taste in my mouth because we were so close (to advancing to the Elite 8). It's going to be hard when reality sets in. Down the stretch we had some missed opportunities that we didn't take advantage of. On the last possession, we had a breakdown in the defense.

I thought it was a good fight. I thought we fought to the bitter end.

I think this was definitely our worst loss of the season. It's very bitter to me simply for one reason that we couldn't come into the game focused because the other team had their best player out.

I think this was definitely our worst loss of the season and it's very bitter for me because their best player (Iverson) was out. I thought we were sloppy offensively the whole game and we weren't focused defensively. I thought from top to bottom it was from every individual, our worst game of the year.

Well--all things turn bitter in the endwhether you choose the right orthe left wayand--dreams are not a bad thing.

Well-- all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way and-- dreams are not a bad thing.

That was in the back of our minds. There was still a bitter feeling going around the school, and I think we just wanted to make sure that didn't happen to both teams.

That was just the icing on the cake. It was time for both sides to part, they were bitter and I was bitter. It was like everyone against me all of a sudden.

I wasn't bitter from divorce. I was adored for 26 years. We each knew what the other was talking about.

Wiesenthal, like few others ... personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. Despite this, he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

You always want to win, no matter who you're playing. I'm happy for them, but we came in here trying to win our second straight state title. It leaves a bitter taste.

We each had our share of great plays and mistakes, and their goalie outplayed ours. We fought hard to the bitter end and had our chances, but their guy really made some good saves.

We had a lot of peanuts dug before they were physiologically mature. We had more complaints about peanut flavor that year than any other. The peanuts had a big enough size, but when they were roasted, they gave off a bitter taste.

We have waited years for this moment and the fruit has not grown bitter on the vine.

We'll respond; we've responded all season. It was obviously disappointing, and it left a bitter taste in everybody's mouth. We have to bounce back. This is another big week for us. We're playing some tough teams, and we really have to rise to the occasion.

Three of us hung in there to the bitter end. I encourage anyone who wants to quit smoking to take the class.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

We have not even put the word out to the Iraqi people. We're going to hold that till right down to the bitter end to ensure that the enemy does not have much time at all if, in fact, they decide the plan against those positions.

The presence of foreign troops is damaging for the Iraqis, and the Iraqi government could ask for their departure by proposing a timetable, ... the US and Britain will eventually have to leave Iraq with a bitter experience.

Those big, bold wines are too intensive for some. A Cabernet Sauvignon red wine might be ideal for a consumer with a typical number of taste buds, but it might taste bitter for a consumer with a large number of taste buds like me.

Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

We still control our own destiny. But this was a bitter loss, a really tough, tough loss to take.

Time takes to heal a wound in mind would be a whole life time,perhaps even not after death.The only solution is not to waste a second to think or repent about that bitter past.This would lead to get our lives sweeter than we ever think of.Because,we never know about future.

We don't know where it's going wrong, but it's a bitter pill to swallow.

We are moving forward with a large group of players rather than having five or six guys we brought in to bridge a gap for a year. We had our first taste of the process. The first two months, it was a very bitter taste. We took a lot of ridicule. But we hung together. We are not out of the woods yet, but we've taken steps forward.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.

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

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

We knew we had to go through Oakland to win the championship, and they knew they had to go through Kansas City. That made it a very bitter rivalry.

We were winning late. (Colin) Tanabe hit a ball into right-center field that we thought the right fielder should've caught, didn't, and we ended up getting beat and that left a bitter taste in your mouth.

When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.

We're tired of that bitter taste. We don't like getting up on Saturday morning after losing.

When you know the season's coming to an end, you know what the date is, it's depressing. There are going to be a lot of us next week in a state of depression. It leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, but it gives us a chance to take it out on Dallas on Sunday night.

Fabien was in great form at the moment. His absence is a bitter blow for the team.

Both teams played fairly well considering it was the first game and kind of bitter out.

The government and people of Iraq can with their voices seek a timetable for the exit of the occupiers, ... Certainly, in the end the Americans and British will be forced by bitter experience to leave Iraq.

We were down 4-0 and we said we should win the last period of the Olympics and we did that so (the players) were happy for the silver medal. But they were bitter they didn't play so well in the beginning of the game.

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

We had a situation in a place where he had to win and it didn't work out. Perhaps the bitter taste of this will make us better next year.

We all have a bitter taste in our mouth (over) the last two years. We've been so close and never finished. We remember the things we learned and how we felt every single year.

This was a bitter pill to swallow. This was one we felt we could get. We couldn't pull it off.

What is food to one is to another bitter poison.

Though our histories are burdensome with pain and often bitter memories, we must have the strength to get ahead and not just get even,

We don't root for them to lose. We're not bitter old men, like some people make us out to be, but we're proud of our accomplishment. You can't beat perfection -- you can only equal it. If the Colts do it, then we'll make room for another chair on the mountain.

What happened to me is not that important in the scheme of things, he said. But what is happening to the judiciary is tremendously important to all Americans. So, I'm not bitter - my spirits are good. My faith has not been weakened. God's grace indeed is sufficient.

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.

We didn't make any progress this game as a team so we're pretty disappointed. The previous two games we made a bit of progress but we took a step backwards in this one. It's a bitter feeling. Back to the drawing board.

Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.

Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it

Everything that happened in the second half is fixable, but it was downright ugly. Even though it's a 'W', I'm a little bitter about the way we played.

Everybody thought there was this bitter rivalry going on. In actuality, we didn't even know those guys back then.

Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.

Fear of a peace deal at the Bush White House had less to do with oil, Israel or Iraqi expansionism than with the bitter legacy of a lost war. 'This is the chance to get rid of the Vietnam Syndrome,' one senior aide told us.

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

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

I sensed it was a kind of a bitter moment for them both. I've known them both for a long time, and we really thought they would bring a lot to our team. Then we got down into the numbers of the things and it just didn't work out.

The Yale game was a bitter pill to swallow. We had plenty of opportunity to beat Yale. The bottom line is that I could probably go over ten to fifteen plays in the second half that clearly would have given us the two other points that we needed for the win.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

It would be easy to be bitter about the experience, but in life that was only a breath.

It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

These cool or antagonistic relationships are part of life in Washington and are accepted as such, but I often think how self-defeating they are and how much better polite professional relationships would serve political figures and journalists in situations like this. I agreed with a charming message I got from George McGovern after he had been defeated for the presidency. He recalled making some bitter remarks about a couple of our columnists at a dinner party; but wrote me, 'I have regretted that outburst and I have also established that the maximum time I can carry a grudge is about three months. This note is simply to say that I have now forgotten all campaign grudges. It is just too difficult trying to remember which people I'm supposed to shun.'

The sweet taste of the cheap deal is often spoiled by the bitter taste of poor service

The sweet taste if the cheap deal is often spoiled by the bitter taste of poor service