Spite Quotes
844 Spite quotes by 654 unique authors
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She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened.…
— Madeline Miller
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Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life…
— J R Ward
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There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there…
— J R Ward
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More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.
— Holly Black
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We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…
— Frederick Buechner
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We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One…
— Edmond Rostand
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in…
— Paul Celan
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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
— Veronica Roth
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies…
— Og Mandino
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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious…
— Colleen McCullough
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True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.
— Robin Parrish
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but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime…
— Jim Butcher
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When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my…
— Frantz Fanon
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One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful…
— Veronica Roth
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Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life;…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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She studied him for a few more seconds. “You look too pretty to be useful.” I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and shook…
— Richelle Mead
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
— Agatha Christie
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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 worse than a…
— Neal Shusterman
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