In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. — Virginia Woolf 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
When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Each one of us must ask how we contribute to the racist climate that seems only to grow stronger in spite of… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very… — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
