2.
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
Adrian Rogers
3.
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
Charles de Gaulle
4.
Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
5.
But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
Edgar Guest
7.
My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.
Natsuo Kirino
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Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
Paul Celan
10.
You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.
Janet Collins
11.
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
Paul Ricoeur
12.
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
R. A. Torrey
13.
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
Livy
14.
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
Richard Paul Evans
15.
"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.
Paul Washer
16.
If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite
Maria Bamford
17.
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
Paul Klee
18.
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
Laurence J. Peter
19.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Agatha Christie
20.
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Lucian Freud
21.
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Clarence Jordan
22.
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
23.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Aldous Huxley
24.
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
25.
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
Edward Lear
26.
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
Dallas Willard
27.
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
Henri Bergson
28.
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
John Dryden
30.
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.
Joni Eareckson Tada
31.
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.
Jim Wallis
32.
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
Pablo Picasso
33.
Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.
Kenneth Arrow
34.
Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
Jon Foreman
35.
I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.
Luciano Pavarotti
36.
In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.
Bill Cosby
38.
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
Emile M. Cioran
40.
I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.
Miriam Margolyes
43.
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
Oswald Chambers
44.
The anchor holds in spite of the storm
Ray Boltz
45.
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
Charles Bukowski
46.
I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.
Martin Scorsese
48.
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
Alfred de Musset
49.
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
Voltaire
50.
My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
Thomas Hardy