LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

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• In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Country
  • Think

• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Country
  • Journey

• I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Game
  • End

• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Women
  • Guys
  • Bitter

• Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Child
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Forever
  • Impossible
  • Bitter

• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Strong
  • Words
  • Strength

• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Thought
  • Human
  • Bitter

• One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Bitter

• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • End
  • Bitter
  • Rather

• Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Truth
  • Bitter
  • Jokes

• I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Think
  • Tears

• I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Experience
  • Power

• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Experience
  • Bitter

• Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bitter

• Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter - you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Truth
  • Small

• True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Sympathy
  • Concern

• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Community
  • Semmering Academy
  • Grove School

• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Live

• It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Bitter
  • Get Better