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“It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.”

Tree Flower Fruit Bitter Exquisite

Author:Zoe Akins

“Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to heaven and to God with no chains to clog its flight or pull it down. Free! the earth wore a brighter look, and the very stars seemed to sing with joy. Yes, free! free by the laws of man and the smile of God-and Heaven bless them who made me so!”

Men Looks Heart Made Soul Earth Law Joy Heaven Stars Struggle Rings Flight Bitter Chains Glorious Bless Brighter

Book:Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.”

Helping Attention Focus Lessons Overcoming Bitter Bitterness

Author:Edward Howard Griggs

“Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.”

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.”

“I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.”

Way Writing Country Feelings Kids Song Turns Dark Influence Huge Brilliant Clever Bitter Obsessed Phrases Pun

Author:Teddy Thompson

“The difference between bitter and better is I.”

Differences Bitter

Author:Jennifer Rothschild

“Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.”

Want Made Life Is Sweet Suicide Bitter Just One Shakes Ingredients Preacher Teenage Fists Mourn Benevolent Sweet Life Sweet Things

Author:Kyle Minor

“I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.”

Giving Cold Anxiety Partners Coffee Bitter Anxiety Attacks

Author:Moby

“The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.”

Men Firsts Important Ends Childhood He Man Achievement Sexuality Bitter Tragic Fascinated Oscars Disgrace Downfall Wilde Vindicated

Author:Stephen Fry

“In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.”

People Ifs Different Bits Groups Bitter Canada New Orleans Baggage Dealing With People

Author:Lewis Black

“I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.”

Thinking Behinds Comedy Bitter Comedian Rejected Impetus

Author:Justin Timberlake

“There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.”

Thinking Feels Moments Sound Sleep Ability Baby Goes On Lucky Conversation Findings Lonely Boring Bitter Bored Paris Jealous Spares Unnatural Resent Spare Time Consoling

Author:David Nicholls

“The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its idolatry; But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted; The thoughts--the recollections sweet and bitter,-- Th' Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved,-- Who shall restore them?”

Giving May Art Dream Eye Form Views Sweet Lovers Mets Scene Separation Bitter Features Absent Weeping Recollection Idolatry

Book:Betram, Or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand: A Trgedy ...

Source: Betram, Or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand: A Trgedy ...

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive. Don't become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.”

Needs Persons Able Time Mistake Relationship Honor Mets Grateful Bitter Be Grateful

Book:Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

“things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.”

Taste Cost Bitter Sweat Salt Bitter Taste

Book:Now in November

Source: Now in November

“The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.”

Should Tree Fruit Bitter Gossip Grapefruit Grapevine

Author:Chrystos

“Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.”

Taste Tongue Bitter Jealousy Flavor Pits Peaches

Author:Dolores Hitchens

“In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.”

Dying Periods Blessing Solitude Bitter Curse Dying Alone

Book:The Quality of Mercy

Source: The Quality of Mercy

“Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.”

Men Stills Home Young Father Fame Angry Bitter Young Man Nfl Very Happy Participating Home Life Disenfranchised

Author:Jim Brown

“Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.”

Mind Care Wealth Conflict Bitter Roof Bats Treasured

Author:Horace

“I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.”

Bitter

Book:Felix Holt, The Radical

Source: Felix Holt, The Radical

“Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.”

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.”

People Ifs Want Happened Taste Bitter Nervous Awful Privacy Chill

Author:Ruth Negga

“it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.”

Cold Winter Bitter Iron Gray Afternoon Armor Biting

Book:The Peaceable Kingdom

Source: The Peaceable Kingdom

“You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.”

Knows Seems Forget Know How Sorrow Finals Disappointment Disaster Bitter Heartache Bitter Disappointment

Author:Emilie Loring

“Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.”

People Thinking Cases Negative Bitter

Author:Hope Solo

“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.”

Stills I Can Hands Girl Missing Bitter Sense Of Humor Salt Berlin Crisps Pudding Vinegar Yorkshire Leeds

Author:Sam Riley

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.”

Thinking Romance Missing Mines Tough Roots Lonely Bitter

Author:Stephen Lang

“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.”

Bitter Coward Reviews Console Paraphrase Noel

Author:Steven Weber

“But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.”

May Doe Seems Lasts Artist Honest Mines Understood Greed Investing Painful Painter Bitter Vanity Being Honest Merit My Time Confession Clown Imbecility Goya Giotto

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”

“I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.”

Heart Hard Mother Hair Cost Normal Mouths Lovely Bitter Tall Veins Lawns Puddles

Book:We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.”

Circumstances Refuse Bitter

Author:Nicole Kidman

“Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.”

Way Hard Body Action Earth Purpose Evil Given Existence Sweet Thousand Consequence Bones Flesh Bitter Primaries Agency Good And Evil Privileged Our Actions Differentiate

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Im 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.”

Different Ends Asks House Dark Fans Color Taste Offers Mark Bitter Preparation Meat Dry Chocolate Steak Juicy Dark Chocolate Grilling Bitter Taste Steak House

Author:Tom Colicchio

“Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.”

Stones Window Bitter Factories Chapel Snarling

Author:Vachel Lindsay

“Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.”

Feels Doe Light Love Is Sweet Bears Balance Equal And Love Burden Heavy Bitter Alone In Love Heavy Burdens

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.”

Education Cold Prove Winter Obstacles Bitter Carnivals Dartmouth Bitter Cold

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“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.”

Pages Blame Dare Bitter Communism

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.”

Heart Trust Tongue Bitter Bitterness Never Trust Trust Your Heart

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.”

Sweet Mouths Bitter Spit

Book:The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...

Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...

“Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.”

Knows Stuff Glory Bitter

Author:Yukio Mishima

“A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar”

Made Changed Sweet Taste Bitter Poison Castes Nectar Caste System Untouchability

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.”

Artist Order Pleasure Imagine Produce Bitter Imagine That Portraits Bitter Experience

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.”

Air Members Casts Bitter Horizon Lightning Breeze Electrical Cast Members

Author:Ridley Pearson

“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”

Years Ends Pleasure Existence Moral Poverty Intellectual Mere Pursuit Bitter Vain Sufficient Restless Doom Vacuity

Book:Works: The strenuous life

Source: Works: The strenuous life

“You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Worry Comedy Groups Picks Critics Bitter

Author:Todd Phillips

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