American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away… — Edmond Rostand 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
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that paradigm shift away from signing Rock and Metal acts is part of the decline in sales the… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still… — Jan Smuts 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
“Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them… — Hermann Goering Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things,… — Julia Cameron 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
I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image