“Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid.” — Nabil N. Jamal Copy Share Image
“...these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“It was gone now, the little smile, the glee that Spite gives. The Small-mindedness. The Self-righteousness. The Sadism. The four ‘S’s of… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth. — Hugh MacDiarmid Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image