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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
by Paul Harris (Entertainer) keywords: anything, bitterness, civil, destined, experience, extreme, international, states, than, united, warfare , worse Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
by Abdul Kalam (Statesman, Indian , born in 1931) keywords: achieve, around, bitterness, breeds, cannot, hearts, hollow, success, their, those , work From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
by Lucretius (Poet , Roman) keywords: among, bitterness, delight, flowers, fountain, heart, jet, rises, tortures, us , very From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
by Lucretius (Poet , Roman) keywords: amongst, anguish, arises, bitterness, enchantment, flowers, fountain, spread, taste , very It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
by Robert G. Menzieskeywords: bitterness, cultivation, enemy, forgotten, greatest, high, hopes, joy, present, retrospective, simple, sometimes , truth I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.
by Greg Norman (Athlete, Australian , born in 1955) keywords: always, any, believed, better, bitter, bitterness, call, decade, each, gone, gotten, just, life, see, seems, sweet , think To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
by Flannery O'Connor (Author, American , born in 1925) keywords: bitterness, ends, expect, life, much, sentimental, softness, too , view After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
by Robert Dale Owen (Politician, Scottish , born in 1801) keywords: after, bear, bitterness, borne, exertions, fruit, furnishes, future, ground, history, old, our, parallel, part, past, remain, root, sprout, still, voluntary, which , world Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
by Donald Sutherland (Actor, Canadian , born in 1935) keywords: amount, bitterness, certain, fire, much, someone, though, too , tries I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: am, bitterness, criticism, effective, expressed, get, him, man, most, provoke, severe, some, sorry, think, truth , until It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: anything, bitterness, build, frustration, hardly, helplessness, mood, possible , prevail Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: bitterness, feeling, filled, helplessness, history, national, often, our , us You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
by Emil Zatopek (Athlete, Czechoslovakian , born in 1922) keywords: aim, bitterness, climb, enthusiasm, floor, fulfill, goal, gradually, high, ladder, raise, reasonable, second, set, then, too, try, turns, up, without , your
