For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And… — Laini Taylor 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
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised… — David Benioff 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
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem… — Elton John Copy Share Image
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail. — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow and possible pain,… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image