To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also… — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once… — Marquis de Sade 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
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted"… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The public is really not kept abreast, and our leaders are not clear and forthright about what the terms of engagement are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
