The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.... — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand 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
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. — Jim Wallis 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
There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
