Spite Quotes - Page 36

• Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Beautiful, Secret, Ugly

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: “You’re blue.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Blue, Gone

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

  Jane Austen

  Faults, Sweetest, Creatures

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.557, MobileReference

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• He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jealous, Names, Hearing

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1210, Delphi Classics

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• ...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.

  John Keats

  Moving, Dark, Shapes

  Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1840). “The poetical works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: complete in one volume”, p.533

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• When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Acceptance, Brave

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

  Clarence Jordan

  Belief, Evidence, Scorn

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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!

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Past, Mankind

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• Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it... You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings. - Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Class, Soul, Ninja

  "Fictional character: Kankuro". "Naruto: Shippūden", 2007-2017.

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• Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• You said you were a victim. That's why...that's why ultimately, you and I aren't matched for each other. In spite of everything that's happened, I've never though of myself that way. Being a victim means you're powerless. That you won't take action. Always...always I've done something to fight for myself...for others. No matter what.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Fighting, Done

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• The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Son, Broken, Way

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 31, 2010

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• The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

  H. G. Wells

  Fear, Wall, Pain

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.36, Booklassic

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• Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sorry, Responsibility, Years

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• I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Farewell, Glasses

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. “How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. “I thought I grew out of it.” Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to unlock his Mercedes. I slide into the passenger side, brushing coffee cups off the seat and onto the floor mat, where crumpled printouts from MapQuest soak up any spilled liquid. “I hope you mean sleepwalking,” Philip says, “since you obviously didn’t grow out of stupid.

  Holly Black

  Stupid, Coffee, Mean

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Flower, Heart, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2017). “Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.495, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Talent, Ability, Feels

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• I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

  Robin Hobb

  Hurt, Writing, Boys

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.2, Spectra

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• Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

  Erich Fromm

  Political, Intellectual, Progress

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• But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Strong, Desire, Trying

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Girl, Falling In Love, Believe

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• From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.” Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they’d been through. Maybe because of it. “I’ll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.

  Tina St. John

  Brother, Blood, Stills

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• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

  Jennifer Worth

  People, Grace, Ignorant

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Wicked

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