Spite Quotes - Page 14

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Dream, Stars, Sky

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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 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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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

C. V. Wedgwood

History, Political, Way

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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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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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... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.

Margaret Benson

Mean, Together, Progress

Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

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

Maria Bamford

Alive, Reason, Ifs

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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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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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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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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

James Joyce

Perfect, Water, Humanity

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In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

George Carlin

Sports, Baseball, Football

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Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?

Herman Melville

Stars, Faces, Bricks

Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.179, Herman Melville

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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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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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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Family, Beautiful, Mean

1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.10.

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In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

Richard Misrach

Photography, Discovery, Trends

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poetry, Excellence, Madness

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The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.

Josiah Royce

Real, Unique, Thinking

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Hugh MacDiarmid

Optimism, Here And There, Elements

Hugh MacDiarmid (2006). “Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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