"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way. — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada. — Jinder Mahal Copy Share Image
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences. — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing… — Maia Wojciechowska Copy Share Image
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“That's why I preach today. Do not do spite," he said. "Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine 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
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy. — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Spite was the fuel to right all your wrongs. And like any fuel, it could consume you.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. — William Allan Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image