As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

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.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

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?

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

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.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

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.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Bitterness is so ugly.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.