Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land… — Harold Innis 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
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
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear. — Robin Parrish Copy Share Image
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. — Rollo May 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
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
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
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
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
