Quotes with bitter

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  • Auberon Herbert I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bill Bailey 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...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bob Greene If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Lucretius In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Penn It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Barack Obama It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans... tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Alighieri Dante O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson Oh, write of me, not ''Died in bitter pains,'' but ''Emigrated to another star!''
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  • Arthur Rimbaud One evening I sat Beauty on my knees -And I found her bitter -And I reviled her.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Bill Cosby People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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