Spite Quotes - Page 25

• I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
  Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

  John Henry Newman

  Pride, Past, Years

  'Lead, kindly Light' (1834).

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• Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Hands, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Men, Blessing

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• The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Serenity, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Israel, Generations

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

  John Donne

  Lying, Night, Light

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

  Lee Smolin

  Effectiveness, Words Of Wisdom, Principles

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• In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Wisdom, Lying, Differences

  "Satires (Satire 4)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Unconditional love is being connected to Source in spite on the conditions.

  Esther Hicks

  Love, Source, Unconditional

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• Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Energy

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• All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Beauty, Nature, Math

  "Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions". Book by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 84, 1959.

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• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  Maxims and Reflections (1819)

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• My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Heart, Romance, Needs

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• If I... if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion for 30 years. Because wrestling one night a month at Madison Square Garden is easy. You never see a Hulk Hogan wrestle TLC matches against a superstar like Ryback. Because he had it easy. I wrestle physically demanding matches on free television, week in and week out. So much that my one year equals 30 of theirs. And I have attained this success, not... not because of you. I am successful not because of you. I am successful in spite of you.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Wrestling, Successful

  "WWE Raw", January 7, 2013.

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Time, Expression, Limits

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• make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Writing, Men

  "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 52, 1967.

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• There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Best Effort, Diversity, Three

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred the Great

  New Year, War, Pride

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical embodiment had left the world, in spite of plenty of evidences of His Grace. But, ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it that brings to It the adoration of millions from all over the world? You will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this is the Supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Grace, Age, Irreverence

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• I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

  Mark Udall

  Couple, Believe, Gay

  "Same-sex marriage debate: A model for other issues" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com.

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• In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

  Martin Buber

  Children, Responsibility, Past

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.135, Routledge

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• The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

  Joel Osteen

  Religion, Atheism, May

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2014

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• The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life" and I do not see anything happening yet to loosen the hold of this machinery on us.

  Edward Condon

  Loyalty, Political, Way

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• I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Moon

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