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The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus.

Pressure is a good thing. Pressure is not a bad thing. So if we were to win in Saskatoon that's all well and good -- and I want that to happen -- but I have no problem with us being in a pressure situation all the way down to the bitter end.

Probably it's going to taste a little bit bitter in the next few days. You win the bronze, you win the gold, you lose the silver. As a hockey player you always want to win. It's disappointment right now.

Probably because many people do not want it to work fast. The spiritual matrix of the people is predominantly tuned to beautiful lies rather than the bitter truth.

Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, still our joys are swept away. And loved ones we would keep, with the dead are called to sleep. None is wise enough to say why the wicked seem to stay, and the beautiful and good leave before we think they should. But if death seemed always just, soon in God wed cease to trust. If for evil, death were meant as a bitter punishment; should the wicked only die, then heaven we seek on high. Having none we long to see would a fearful religion be. It is only by belief we are comforted in grief; it is only by our trust that the God we love is just. That we bear divinely planned. Griefs we cannot understand.

The one thing I can really count on is the players never quit. They are going to fight until the bitter end. That is why they have had a pretty successful year so far.

The older the tea, the more harsh and bitter it becomes. And imported teas can be many, many months old before the consumer gets a chance to buy it off the shelf, ... Our advantage is that we can get our tea from the field to the customer within a month.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Once we found out Chico won, that really let the wind out of our sails. We thought we were the best team all year, but now we have a bitter taste in our mouths for next season. I'm proud of these guys, all of them. They all grew up this year.

The More BittEr You ExPriEnce The More SweeTEr U'll FiNd... even WheN Its sweetlEss... So Learn to Be Happy with BiTTer Miseries!!!

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.

You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you darling Still I'd be on my feet. I would still be on my feet.

This is bitter the team is devastated. I will try and lift their spirits. But if you can't score a goal in two matches against a team like Sofia, then you can't advance.

This is bitter because we badly needed three points. It will be very difficult because Werder seem to be on a roll but we'll keep trying.

This is about as bitter a defeat as you could have.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

A man is not scared of the 'Past' i.e. bygone days, no matter how bitter it might have been.

This left a bitter taste in my mouth. Losing a championship game is the worst feeling in the world.

This leaves a real bitter taste in my mouth.

They're a good basketball team. They have a very hostile home environment. They are very balanced. They have seven or eight guys who can score for them. They are probably a little bitter since they didn't get an at-large bid to the Tournament.

There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.

a bitter pill for them to swallow, it eliminated a lot of risk and allowed them to march forward and build their business.

The most bitter ones can surely find another job, maybe off-record(on Fiat job losses).

It's a very bitter pill - 2-1 would have been a better result, especially in a home game, but nothing's impossible.

It was certainly a battle to get here. We all had at least one game that we really had to fight through that came right down to the bitter end to determine who would get to the Final Four.

It was such a long summer. There was a bitter taste in our mouths after last season but it also gave us more to play for.

It was a weekend to forget. Going home without points is a very bitter feeling, given that we have all we need to succeed.

It's a bitter pill to swallow. It's like a grieving process. First, there's feelings of anger and denial, and eventually, some pilots may reach that point of acceptance that this is a necessary sacrifice.

It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.

It is the devil that will lie to you that ignorance is bliss.The truth is ignorance is not bliss, because ignorance kills.The truth may be bitter or sour, but the truth heals.

It's a game of inches, I guess, ... It leaves a bitter taste in your mouth a little bit and makes you realize once again that this game isn't really fair. I don't know what to say. I take full responsibility. I blew it.

It really leaves a bitter taste. It is shameful.

For many years we had one of the most bitter environmental battles in the country. We still have environmental wars, but they're comparatively small scale. We've transcended partisanship. We work closely with the casinos and ski resorts now.

It's always a little bitter taste when you have a silver medal. It's one step away from gold. I'm sure they will learn from this. I still couldn't be any happier with the way they skated.

It may give the governor a sense he has to prove something establish his reputation to not back down. I am afraid the parties are really digging in. This has become a first-class dispute, a bitter dispute.

It's going to come to the bitter end. This year's league is very competitive and the two teams that finish consistent from here on out will go to state.

It's been a great life until the last three years. These energy prices are a bitter pill.

It's playoffs, and there was a little bitter taste in our mouths (from last season).

Don't bring ten athletes somewhere and then four or five of them are mad because they're not on the team, ... And then a lot of people are very bitter about it and they're happy to see us fail. It should be cut and dry. It should be these athletes are going to run, and if anything happens, we bring in another athlete.

Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out

That loss to Philadelphia left a bitter taste in our mouths, but our motivation is to come back this year and try to top that, ... I'm excited about where I'm at right now. I can imagine what the future holds as I continue to play in this offense.

Still, you can't afford to take chances when a gamble develops on this job as previous bitter experience has shown us.

That is the most bitter part of this evening and I have to digest it first.

It'll be two wounded teams playing. Anytime you go a long time without losing, you don't want to say you lose that hunger, but you can't take it for granted. This should refocus them and have that bitter taste of losing fresh in their minds.

It's happened too often. It's a terrible feeling. We're a good team and we'll rectify it, but it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth right now.

It was a playoff atmosphere right to the bitter end.

It was kind of bitter sweet for me. He wanted to be there. He wanted a record deal. But in a way he did get it because he's living it through me. He's just excited for me and he's very supportive.

I've learned of life this bitter truth/ Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,/ But rather,/ Build within thy own soul/ Fortresses!

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

It was probably more of an emotional win. When you talk to some of these young guys and you see where their heads are, they're looking the right way, they're talking the right way and they battle until the bitter end. To be back at home pitching and get a win on Opening Day with family and friends here, it's special.

It will incite some bitter feelings within the Shiite communities and it will also instigate some sectarian frictions between Sunni and Shiite.

It will be a bitter pill to her, that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor, and then be swallowed and forgotten

They damned near cleaned our clock. They were a formidable enemy. I threw myself into a bomb crater and there were two marines there and I realized I was the only one alive. It was an incredibly bitter battle, so I'd like Eastwood to do something that would bring us together.

They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust,

It was honest and truthful to what I believed was an L.A. cop, not typical of what every cop is. It went and explored these two extremes ... bitter racist cop and really loving son who cares about his sick father. These are the complicated things we see in life.

They will come down with a bitter taste in their mouths after what happened last year. They will be wanting to put the record straight. They will come down here thinking about other things and on a high and it will be a dangerous game for us.

A period of severe wintry weather with blizzards, bitter winds and hard frosts is set to strike. The Arctic-like weather will be felt in the east and north of the country at first, spreading to all other parts during the course of the week.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

I have six children - and four of them still have to get to college. I have a home. I have a family, and my family is suffering too. But we're all in this together, and we have no choice but to stick together until the bitter end. I just hope the end will come soon.

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

I'm very bitter about how I've been treated, there are some things I want to bring into the light, I'm glad I came here. This is the longest time I've been straight and sober. But if I wanted to get high tomorrow - my drug of choice-I could do it in this penitentiary. It comes with the territory. But I fight the feeling.

I'm like one of his fathers who couldn't be prouder of him. It's a long story, but at the bitter end his agents accused me of badmouthing him to the NBA people; because they had convinced him he was a lottery pick.

I have no reason to feel bitter or think about anything in the past. This is the best place I can be.

I'm happy for them, ... They got a chance to get one, that's the goal. I'm not bitter or anything like that.

I'm bitter that out of nine games, I'm pretty much a spectator, ... If I can't pitch here, then let me pitch somewhere else.

I'm bitter about our finish, but our team responded the best it could and I'm proud of its effort. There were some tears shed at the end of the meet, but I didn't want them to feel sorry because they went out there and gave their all.

I'm comfortable with Earl in the game (in the fourth quarter) because he's playing so good. If Luke was playing that good, he'd be in the game. Earl was in the game in the bitter end, but Luke was in there in crunch time also.

I'm angry about stereotypes about Asians, but I'm not bitter about not getting enough roles. I do see myself as being very fortunate, and see the change in the industry.

In the end I'm mother, so they take the bitter with the sweet. They listen to the music and they go on tour sometimes, It feels OK most of the time.

I remember that time you told me, you said "Love is touching souls." Surely you touched mine 'Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time. You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet.

I remember that time you told me, you said""Love is touching souls."" Surely you touched mine 'Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time. You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet.

I'll ride it till the bitter end, and then I'll go back to commuting an hour and 45 minutes from Kingston to Bainbridge Island.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

In the lonely light of morning, in a world that would not heal, it's the bitter taste of losing everything that I've held so dear

In terms of paying for universal health care, why not just give us the bitter medicine of how much it's going to cost us in taxes?

If you make a postmortem, you will definitely find visible improvement. What made us most happy that we removed the tag that we had been too bad against Sri Lanka in the past. The one-day victory erased bitter memories and I think our Test performance was not bad at all if you consider our previous series.

I get a little bitter about New Orleans, because they knew what was going to happen.

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.

Before the match I would have been very content with a 1-0 win, but now the victory has a bitter taste.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

Hopefully, nobody is taking the Sweet 16 for granted. Last year was tough on me. We left with a bitter taste, getting knocked out in the first round. We wanted to get back and we have.

Holtzman clearly showed in the Referendum C campaign he was willing to go scorched earth. Bitter fights leave scars.

He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.

Generally, by the time we reach March, even though it?s bitter cold, we lose ice. We can count on our fingers and toes the number of fishermen we saw out ice fishing.

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter,

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.