Zitat des Tages über Bitterkeit / Bitterness:
I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.
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.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.
Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
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.
I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I say that with realism.
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.
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
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.
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.
People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
Bitterness is so ugly.
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too.