Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it. — Lois Greiman Copy Share Image
We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government. — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. — William Allan Copy Share Image
In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh. — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness,… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Spite was the fuel to right all your wrongs. And like any fuel, it could consume you.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy. — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences. — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
