I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.
When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
I was briefly bitter.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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.
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
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 - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
I love playing the bitter guy.
I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.