#bitter

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#being #bitter #could #feel #i

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#any #athens #been #bitterness #came

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#even #exhausted #going #i #just

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. ↗

— Herbert Read

#bitter #blowing #knows #sensitive #wind

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#adventures #also #believe #bittersweet #does

I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV. ↗

— Al Roker

#angry #because #being #better #bitter

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#alternative #bitter #country #divides #envy

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes