Spite Quotes
844 Spite quotes by 654 unique authors
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In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
— Bertrand Barere
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The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of…
— Gyorgy Kepes
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Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until…
— Ann Landers
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk…
— Will Rogers
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Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary…
— Brigham Young
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
— Robert E. Howard
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As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that…
— Will Rogers
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The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study…
— Matthew Arnold
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We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours…
— Jewel
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Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of…
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
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In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who…
— Flora Tristan
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I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive…
— Buck Brannaman
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We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further…
— Errol White
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Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for…
— Charles McGrath
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GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of…
— Roger E. Olson
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and…
— William Wordsworth
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People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,…
— S I Hayakawa
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It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies…
— William Hazlitt
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past…
— John Dryden
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Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I…
— C.S. Lewis
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