Quotes and Sayings About Spite
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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 -
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 -
[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 -
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 -
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 -
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, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.
-- James L. Farmer, Jr. -
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 -
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