When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right,… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony... — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way. — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the… — Constantin Stanislavski 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
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
