Spite Quotes
844 Spite quotes by 654 unique authors
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Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior,…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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In spite of everything life is not without hope.
— Marilyn Monroe
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
— Therese of Lisieux
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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants…
— Joanne Harris
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Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before…
— Marie Lu
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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
— William Shakespeare
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I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
— Scott Turow
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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
— Mark Twain
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
— Simone Weil
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In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
— Chin-Ning Chu
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None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
— Edgar Guest
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Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them.…
— Julia Cameron
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
— Johnny Griffin
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A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is…
— E. Stanley Jones
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite…
— Rollo May
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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male…
— Victoria Woodhull
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We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience,…
— T. Harv Eker
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The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus,…
— Felix Klein
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When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that…
— Carlos Castaneda
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