Spite Quotations | Page 4

American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.” Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they’d been through. Maybe because of it. “I’ll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

in thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality ...

Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.

it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, / In spite of all the virtue we can boast,/ The woman that deliberates is lost.

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is ''All striving is vain,'' will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it

During Senator Ashcroft's quarter-century of public service, he has taken strong positions on a range of important issues in the range of the Justice Department, ... Unfortunately and often he has used the power of his high office to advance his personal views in spite of the law of the land.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart,

In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories of arms for hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not -- repeat did not -- trade weapons or anything else for hostages nor will we.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

The folly of allowing ourselves to delay what we know cannot be finally escaped is one of the general weaknesses which, in spite of the instruction of moralists, and the remonstrance of reason, prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right

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.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Succeed in spite of management.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.