Spite Quotes · Page 5

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

— Kenneth Arrow

“Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

— Matthew Kelly

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

— George S. Patton

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite”

— Alain de Botton

We accomplish what we do in our lives in spite of the joy stealers.

— Rudy Ruettiger

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

— T. Harv Eker

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

— Marilyn Monroe

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of…

— Aldous Huxley

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And…

— Jonathan Swift

After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

— Henry Howarth Bashford

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted"…

— Isak Dinesen

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous,…

— Mairead Corrigan

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

— John Dryden

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best…

— Uwem Akpan

I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live…

— Emma Goldman

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned…

— Omar Bongo

I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to…

— Steve Goodier

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the…

— Felix Klein

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad…

— Carl Jung

Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the…

— Max Lucado

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal…

— Henri Barbusse

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more…

— Donna Jo Napoli

While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

“The origins of the name Warspite are not clear but the most popular theory is that it was a compound creation –…

— Iain Ballantyne

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism…

— Melissa McCarthy

“It's this human porosity that bothers me and that I can't escape since it is the faith of my skin, the extra…

— Hélène Cixous

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our…

— Winston Churchill

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

In spite of not taking big stars, I have survived in the industry.

— Priyadarshan

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

— Henry Rollins

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

— Melody Beattie

You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.

— Janet Collins

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

— Carrie Fisher

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

— Jane Austen