Spite Quotes - Page 11

• I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.

  Steve Goodier

  Loss, Broken, Effort

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• In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

  H. E Davey

  Mind, Working Together, Body Work

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• I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

  Dalai Lama

  Tired, Humanity, Firsts

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.83, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Language, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.142, A&C Black

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• 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

  Differences, Fundamentals, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Raghavan Iyer (1987). “The moral and political writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent resistance and social transformation”

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• Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Progress, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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

  Maine, Hospitality, Motto

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Wisdom, May

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.444

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• In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Humor, Dark

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• I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.

  Uwem Akpan

  Dream, Art, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Suffering, Individual, Possession

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Succeed

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• If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

  John Piper

  Men, Compassion, Mercy

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• I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

  Gary Johnson

  Marijuana, Alcohol, Criminals

  "America's Most Dangerous Politician". Interview with Michael W. Lynch, reason.com. January 2001.

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• Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

  Voltaire

  Ideas, Stomach, Thinker

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• 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

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Beautiful, Lonely

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• In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).

  Michael Moore

  Country, Jobs, War

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• I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Air, Sea

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• Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.

  Ernst Haas

  Art, Doubt, Clear

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• Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

  Erik Erikson

  Dark, Wish, Care

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

  Erik Erikson

  Determination, Exercise, Self

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

  Kenneth Clark

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.

  Janet Collins

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