... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen… — Jean Webster 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
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets! — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it… — Janet Scudder Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I… — Johnny Weir 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
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
