Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my… — Inge Lehmann 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
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“It's this human porosity that bothers me and that I can't escape since it is the faith of my skin, the extra… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer.… — Teodora Alexandrova Copy Share Image
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard 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
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
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as… — Maria V. Snyder 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