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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
I know all about you from your books,' she said. 'But in spite of that you're still a riddle to me.'
Have you come here to solve it?' I asked. — Maxim Biller
Have you come here to solve it?' I asked. — Maxim Biller
Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to spite you.
— Cat Clarke
Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.
— Dean Koontz
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.
— Paul Washer
This day's nothingness
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
— Nadine Gordimer
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
We can't pick our families or where we come from, Jet. All we can choose is who we want to become in spite of them, and because of them.
— Jay Crownover
Happiness is something that just happens because of the arrangement of circumstances, but joy endures in spite of circumstances.
— John Hunter
The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations
— Michael K. Williams
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
— Vincent Gallo
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
— Andy Rooney
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
— Marianne Williamson
You are truly classy if you manage to speak politely in spite of anger boiling inside you.
— Saru Singhal
I don't know whether there is a God but there sure is someone acting out of spite
— Abraham Sutzkever
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
— Charles Dickens
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.
— Ovid
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.
— Heinrich Heine
There's no Hell to spite the sinners. There's no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine.
— Neil Gaiman
In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.
— H.E. Davey
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
— George Bernard Shaw
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
— Christopher Hitchens
It is infatuation that is blind. Love sees the flaws only too clearly, but goes on caring just the same, in spite of all
— Joan Smith
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
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?
— Melissa McCarthy
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
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
— Jim Balsillie
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
— Victor Hugo
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.
— Jim George
His hand around hers was strong and warm, and in spite of her confusion and hesitation, she never wanted to let go.
— Trinity Faegen
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
— K.E. Garvey
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.
— Sean Penn
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
— M.H. Abrams
You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face
— Paul Merson
Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.
— Justin Somper
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
— Emile M. Cioran
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping,
faces slapping
Left and right. — Aristophanes
faces slapping
Left and right. — Aristophanes
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
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
— Katie Roiphe
It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it.
— Henry James
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...
— Patrick O'Brian
The plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.
— Melody Beattie
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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.
— James Whistler
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
— Guy Finley
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
— Bertrand Barere
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
— Stephen Gardiner
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— William Makepeace Thackeray