Spite quotes
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In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
-- Adrian Rogers -
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
-- Agatha Christie -
A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
-- Alberto Moravia -
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
-- Alfred de Musset -
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.
-- Barbara Pym -
I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
-- Bear Bryant -
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
-- Bette Midler -
In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
-- Cameron Dokey -
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
-- Charles Bukowski -
In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
-- Chin-Ning Chu -
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Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
-- Clarence Jordan -
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
-- Dallas Willard -
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.
-- Dean Koontz -
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
-- Denis Waitley -
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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 -
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
-- Edward Lear -
For others, in spite of myself, from myself.
-- Emmanuel Levinas -
He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
-- Forrest Tucker -
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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
-- Frank Langella -
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
-- Henry Howarth Bashford -
Courage is acting in spite of fear.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.
-- James L. Farmer, Jr. -
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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.
-- Jane Fonda -
In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.
-- Janet Evanovich -
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.
-- Jim Wallis -
The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.
-- Joel Osteen -
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Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
-- John Dryden -
Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
-- Jon Foreman -
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
I would never do anything just for spite.
-- Justin Timberlake -
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In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
-- Katie Roiphe -
In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.
-- Kin Hubbard -
She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
-- Lawrence Durrell -
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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.
-- Lee Lozowick -
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
-- Livy -
Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.
-- Lois Greiman -
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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.
-- Lucian Freud -
I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.
-- Margaret Mahy -
If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite
-- Maria Bamford -
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
-- Mark Twain -
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In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony...
-- Marvin Sapp -
...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.
-- Melody Beattie -
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
-- Morgan Brittany -
My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.
-- Natsuo Kirino -
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
-- Otis Williams -
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
-- Pablo Picasso -
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
-- Patrick Süskind -
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
-- Paul Celan -
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It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
-- Paul Klee -
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
-- R. A. Torrey -
The anchor holds in spite of the storm
-- Ray Boltz -
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
-- Robert E. Howard -
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
-- Sam Kean -
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
-- Sarah Bernhardt -
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 ...
-- Shirley Hazzard -
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In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.
-- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet -
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.
-- Stephen King -
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.
-- Tina St. John -
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
-- Vikram Seth -
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Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.
-- Wayne Dyer -
In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.
-- Anne Fontaine -
You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.
-- Janet Collins -
God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.
-- Jennifer Rothschild -
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God has loved us in spite of us.
-- Steven J Lawson -
Spite will make a woman do more than love.
-- Marguerite de Navarre -
Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.
-- Mike Shannon -
I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.
-- Miriam Margolyes -
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Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.
-- Ernst Haas -
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.
-- Frederick Busch -
Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.
-- Kenneth Arrow
