Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“May I inquire what is the point?” he snapped impatiently. “Indeed you may,” Lucinda said, thinking madly for some way to prod… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear. — Robin Parrish Copy Share Image
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820." — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling… — Moliere Copy Share Image