Spite Quotes - Page 8

• In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Bye, Imagination, Actuality

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• The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Laughter, Artist

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• The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Ambition, Ambitious

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Wise, Children, May

  "The Tree That Fell To The West: Autobiography of a Sufi". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 2003.

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• Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Powerful, Eye

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• Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

  Lynda Lee-Potter

  Powerful, Husband, Men

  1984 In the Daily Mail,16 May.

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• We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

  David J. Lieberman

  Want, Able, Moments

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Imagination, Facts

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• You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

  Penelope Wilton

  Laughing, Trying, Comedy

  "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Bird, Worms, Ecstatic

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.

  Janet Scudder

  Silence, Criticism, Facts

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• you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Courage, Real, Knowing

  Maia Wojciechowska (2007). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

  Cornelia Meigs

  Sorrow, Defense, Goes On

  Cornelia Meigs (1987). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”, Scholastic

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Reducing, Universal

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• Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

  Lois Greiman

  Succeed, Sometimes, Upbringing

  Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.162, Dell

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

  Maria Bamford

  Alive, Reason, Ifs

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• I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.

  George W. Bush

  Hate, Humor, Political

  Bush's Call to Church Groups To Get Untraditional Replies, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2001.

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• In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.

  George W. Bush

  Sex, Believe, Pregnancy

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• Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Cost Of Living, People

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• In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Men, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.75, Bertrand Russell

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• You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

  Paul Merson

  Noses, Want, Faces

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• A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Taken, Biblical

  Marsden Gibson, Charles Bradlaugh (1889*). “Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne”

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• In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reality, Air, Facts

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