Embittered Def Quotes & Sayings

Without self-discovery," Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche's, "a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens. — Andrew Solomon

Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves. — Robert A. Caro

I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed. — Aleister Crowley

We mistakenly believe that who we were is who we are, thus limiting our true potential in the present, based on the limitations of our past. — Hal Elrod

You are powerful. You are loved. You are surrounded by miracles. — Jen Sincero

We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere. — Albert Camus

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell

I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self. — Suzanne Finnamore

There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it. — Gregg Allman

I can't recite the chronology or elaborate on the facts. I can't explain the reasons or defend how we lived our lives. What I can tell you is how the events of 1933 sowed the seeds that fundamentally changed our future, that there was little hand-wringing or emotion, that circumstances were beyond control, that there was no recourse or appeal. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

Ralph Webster, A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other — Ralph Webster

This is the end. For me the beginning of life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love. — Todd Starnes

Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land. 34 Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. — Anonymous

What's this business about the 'little man in the canoe?' If it's big enough for a canoe, it's too big for me. — Quentin R. Bufogle

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan