This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. … I don’t have any choice. This stuff I’m talking about is… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.” — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the… — Frederick Busch 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
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. — Jim Balsillie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you… — Paul Mooney 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
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight. — Charles Sprague Sargent Copy Share Image