Spite Quotes

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow… and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

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

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

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

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.

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

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

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

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.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.