February 14 Bitter Quotes

#1. I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.

Joss Stone

#2. On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer's feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance.

Roy Pascal

#3. Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.

Bruce Sterling

#4. One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

Georges Courteline

#5. The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#6. That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

Carl Hiaasen

#7. Down we felt as up we grew, dancing our didn'ts and drinking our dids.

Rachel E. Pollock

#8. The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors ... not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry ... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.

Gary Soto

#9. My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Sally Kellerman

#10. We often fail to see that there is an invisible wall in a relationship - Cord 10, In Between Us!

Santosh Avvannavar

#11. 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

John Templeton

#14. You'd give up your brothers for a woman?" Brick asked incredulously and Shy's eyes moved to him.

"Abso-fucking-lutely."

"Seriously?" Boz asked.

"Not any woman," Shy nodded my way then invited "now ask again.

Kristen Ashley

#15. Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.

Tristram Stuart

#16. They say no one knows if we all see red the same way. Except traffic cops.

Greg Fitzsimmons