Spite Quotes - Page 31

• Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

  Rick Warren

  Doubt, Unanswered Questions, Trust In God

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2014

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• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Historical, Important

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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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• Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

  Guido von List

  Life, Religious, Nature

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• Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no reason for doubt-filled pessimism, for the Wihinei of the Aryo-Germanics is too deep - even if unconscious and latent - rooted in every Aryo-Germanic soul and it awaits onl the call to awaken which will and must catch fire in order to instill the flame of inspiration in the Aryo-Germanic sensibility.

  Guido von List

  Inspiration, Twilight, Dark

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• We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Government, Republican, Ends

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

  Anuj

  People, Progress, Levels

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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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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Past

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• It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.

  Daniel Craig

  Running, Strong, Teenager

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

  Kirk Douglas

  Apology, Thinking, House

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Get Well, Medicine, Patient

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.107

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• The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Facts

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• Succeed in spite of management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Succeed, Management

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• In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.

  John Wooden

  Fall, Doctors, Spirit

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.13, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

  Bette Midler

  Nature Love

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• Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

  Michel Foucault

  Hypocrisy, Facts, Modern

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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• And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Artist, Dna, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I know as well as thee that I am no poet born
  It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn
  If I make verses-'tis in spite
  Of nature and my stars I write.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Stars, Writing, Poet

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

  James A. Michener

  Creative, Groups, Would Be

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