(84 quotes found)
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage.”
Bill Cosby
“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”
Will Rogers
“You've already won me over-in spite of me. So don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet. And don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are. I couldn't help it-it's all your fault.”
Alanis Morisette
“Don't cut off your nose to spite your face”
American Proverb
“In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality”
Clarence Darrow
“You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
Walker Percy
“I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.”
James Whistler
“In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.”
Oscar Wilde
“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.”
David Herbert Lawrence
