We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss. — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Common sense is in spite of, not because of age. — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Copy Share Image
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage… — Penelope Wilton 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
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments. — Henry Howarth Bashford Copy Share Image
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be… — Lars Frederiksen Copy Share Image
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and… — George Orwell 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
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works… — William H. Seward 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
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our… — Winston Churchill 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
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
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Don't try to tell me how to live my life, I'll do the opposite solely to spite you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us.” — William Sumner Copy Share Image
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart. — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image