If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well—let it get worse!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies,… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace… — Anonymous 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
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
God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the… — William Shakespeare 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
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
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
In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women. — Bill Cosby 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
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it… — Lonnie Donegan Copy Share Image
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
