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Unless you're powered by an ungodly amount of spite, it's pretty impossible to succeed while doing something that you genuinely hate.
— Sophia Amoruso
I'd encourage Ann to cling to God's character in spite of what her circumstances screamed.
— K. Howard Joslin
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
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820."
— John Hodgman
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
— Paul Mooney
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
— Henry Howarth Bashford
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
Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
— Arthur Miller
In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.
— Paul Washer
I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love To spite a raven's heart within a dove.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
— Pearl S. Buck
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
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
— Aldous Huxley
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
— C.S. Lewis
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
— Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
— Rick Warren
Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.
— Robert Galbraith
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
— Angela Carter
Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight. — Charles Sprague Sargent
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight. — Charles Sprague Sargent
Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.
— Johnny Rutherford
To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
— George S. Patton
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
The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.
— Lawrence Crane
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.
— John C. Broger
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
— R.A. Torrey
In spite of what anyone says it's women who make the rules.
— A.S.A Harrison
I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow.
— Antonia Michaelis
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.
— Edith Wharton
In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children.
— Leo Tolstoy
Nothing should be done for spite's sake.
— Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
— Winston S. Churchill
Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
— C.S. Lewis
Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.
— Claire Messud
Commissariat in her own hands, in spite of all Mary's
— L.M. Montgomery
We all love our brothers, in spite of the fact that none of us has a clue what's really in their hearts.
— Aaron Starmer
Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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
In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.
— Leo Tolstoy
Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted,
spite of ugly looks and threats,
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets! — Helen Hunt Jackson
spite of ugly looks and threats,
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets! — Helen Hunt Jackson
God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation.
— Billy Graham
You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face
— Paul Merson
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
The plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.
— Melody Beattie
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...
— Patrick O'Brian
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
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
— Katie Roiphe
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 all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
— Jim Balsillie
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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
Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.
— Justin Somper
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
— M.H. Abrams
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
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
— K.E. Garvey
His hand around hers was strong and warm, and in spite of her confusion and hesitation, she never wanted to let go.
— Trinity Faegen
Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.
— Jim George
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 me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
— Victor Hugo
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
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes
— Cecilia London
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
— Henrik Ibsen
There's no Hell to spite the sinners. There's no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine.
— Neil Gaiman
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
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
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
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
— Andy Rooney
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
— Kathleen Norris
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
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
In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.
— H.E. Davey
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
— Stephen Gardiner
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
— Bertrand Barere
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