Spite Quotes - Page 2

If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite

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.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

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

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

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

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Despite the failures you've had, you can be great.

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

If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life—yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear—then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

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

Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.

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

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.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.