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“I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Persons Two Jobs Lasts Night Choices Three Father Morning Bed Wine Drinking Bitter Up Early Drinking Wine Two Choices Morning Person Night Person

Author:Dave Matthews

“Bad times can make you bitter or better.”

Bitter Bad Times

Author:John Wooden

“It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.”

World Needs Believe Hard Poverty Bitter Hard To Believe

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Important Turns Evil Worst Important Things Bitter Things In Life Worst Things Ever After Love And Death Love Death Sex And Death

Author:Woody Allen

“Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply. If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy. If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog.”

Ifs Want Giving Speak Dog Bitter Tolerate Resent Bark

Author:Sai Baba

“According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.”

Order Sweet Cold Hot Bitter Atoms Conventions Void

Author:Democritus

“Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.”

Needs Bitter Disposition Revival Fundamentalist Spirited Pulpit

Author:Vance Havner

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

Enemy Bitter Very True Nehemiah

Book:Moody's Last Sermons

Source: Moody's Last Sermons

“Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.”

Ifs Men World Doe Has Beens Courses Causes Christ Church Sin Doubt Modern Movement Bitter Opposition Intolerance Being Faithful Modern Times

Author:John Gresham Machen

“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.”

Ifs Should Hands Ready Sweet Please Bitter Indifference

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

“The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.”

Sweet Roots Fruit Bitter

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.”

“One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.”

People Way Years Two America Five Poet Thousand Hundred Years Ago Paid Twenties Dollars Surprise Hearing Bitter Five Years Neglected Harvard Twenty Five Delivering

Author:Stephen Spender

“Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.”

Sin Sweet Heavy Bitter Reckoning

Book:The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith

Source: The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith

“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.”

Made Sin Sacrifice Century Capitalism Doctrine Bitter Communism Selfishness Irony Pale 20th Century Accusing Callousness

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.”

Helping Grows Situation Like You Difficulty Defeat Bitter Help Me Unfair Discouraged Hinder Sour Fertilizer

Author:Joel Osteen

“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Left Laughing Path Demand Findings Bitter Shocked Leather Scrap Workshops Carpenter Cucumbers Sawdust

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand.”

Thinking Giving Doe Remember Forever Produce Rose Smell Bread Bitter Honey Herbs Donation Another Life

Author:Omar Khayyam

“We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.”

Blessing Bitter Handicaps

Author:William Arthur Ward

“I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.”

Knows Actors Saws Bitter

Author:William Petersen

“I will tell you is the antidote to [Donald] Trump is a very strong progressive agenda that says, yes, I know you`re angry. And you know what? You should be angry because you`re working longer hours for low wages. You have a right to be bitter and you have a right to be that.”

Knows Should Strong Hours Trump Lows Angry Bitter Agendas Progressive Very Strong Wages Antidote

Author:Bernie Sanders

“One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.”

Ifs Beautiful Certain One Thing Corners Ugly Bitter Destination Interaction Around The Corner Really Beautiful Ugly Things

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.”

Normal Bitter Pills Rail

Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan

“I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.”

Used Mother Father Bitter Sneak

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”

Mind Humans Enjoy Attitude Findings Forgiving Faults Bitter Hostile Shortcomings Learn To Forgive

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.”

People Ifs Want Should Religion Gun Bitter Immigrants Sentiments Clinging Bitter People

Author:Bill Maher

“I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.”

Feels Crosses Bitter Empires Awards I Feel Sad

Author:Emma Thompson

“[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.”

Knows Problem Realizing Humour Wall Angry Bitter

Author:Peter Dinklage

“A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.”

People Years Jobs Turns Television Tvs Nostalgia Bitter Nostalgic Jaded

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.”

People Has Beens Country Bigs Stuff Seeing Trump Becoming Happenings Mouths Ugly Opening Bitter Racist Latent Bitter People

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.”

Enough Hands Light Seems Suffering Turns Black White Race Half Laughing Rich Dog Elements Jazz Forgotten Obvious Bitter Subtle Composer Phases Anguish Grotesque Sophistication Wry White Race

Author:Bix Beiderbecke

“We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.”

May Hard Facts Happens Pain Purpose Turns Circumstances Victim Things Happen Cruelty Bitter Hardship Hard Things

Author:Amy Purdy

“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.”

Trying Years Wells Difficult Youth Source Activity Tricks Bitter Occupation Modest Berries Trying Everything

Author:Martin Munkacsi

“The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.”

Ifs Looks Persons Whole Evil White Results Situation Failing Minutes Circumstances Bitter Look Up Tempted Agonizing Vehement Racial Equality

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”

Doe Character Spiritual Sweet Offers Crosses Appearance Bitter Pleasant Charm Kernel Invigorating True Character Outward Appearance Walnuts Spiritual Peace

Book:At The Master's Feet

Source: At The Master's Feet

“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.”

People Years Has Beens Effort Steps Poverty Overcoming Misery Block Bitter Haitian

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

People Thinking Giving Opinion Nice Presses British Selfish Impression Bitter Ashamed Friendly Embarrassed Really Nice Envious Bitter People

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“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.”

Has Beens Home Moving Winning Struggle One Thing Equal Bitter Fifteen Homeless Eighteen Jaded Moving Out

Author:Jewel

“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.”

Knows Pain Lying Alive Dying Dog Car Broken Cold Winter Woods Passing Snow Passings Bitter Gutters No Pain Asphalt Elk Bitter Cold

Author:George Greenstein

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

Thinking Jesus Crosses Angry Bitter Unnecessary Unkind Whining Profane

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“There are bitter weeds in England.”

England Bitter Weed

Book:Their Finest Hour

Source: Their Finest Hour

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

Sorrow Defeat Bitter Enthusiasm Foe Tactics Great Happiness

Book:Serapis

Source: Serapis

“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.”

Ends Government Poverty Economic Army Paid Crisis Winter East Disaster Bitter Saving Desperate Fund Gates Pills Savings Unemployed Anecdotes Cushions Economic Crisis Docks Syrup Handouts

Author:Melanie McGrath

“Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.”

Hard Bitter Hard Times Compassionate

Author:Jewel

“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.”

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

Stories Bitter Sugar Pills Good Story Sugar Coating

Book:41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

Problem Careers Drug Drinking Surprise Bitter Drunk Pleasant Sense Of Humor Expecting Pleasant Surprises

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“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.”

Important States Process Community Changed Relation Israel Dialogue Bitter Mixing Assimilation Basics Diaspora Jewish Community

Author:Ayelet Shaked

“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.”

Kind May Long Hard Reality Faces Difficult Term Vision Fronts Despair Bitter Empowering Apathy Cynicism Pills Short Term Platitudes Bleakness

Author:Chris Hedges

“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.”

Writing Believe Mean Ends Law Fighting White Come Up Bitter Mary Again And Again One Word Disagreement Correspondence Eleanor Naacp Filibuster Walter White

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

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