Quotes of: Spite Keyword

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

The Courage to Create

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

The Cuckoo's Calling

And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do.

Czas pogardy

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Cutting for Stone

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

The Exorcist

No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!

Beautiful Disaster

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Matt Blunt

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

Life can be messy. No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof. But in spite of their anxieties and their angers, At least- They Are trying to live.

After the Death of Anna Gonzales

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

Astrophel and Stella

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

My Sister's Keeper

I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase Sometimes women do.

Sharp Objects

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

The Setting Sun

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Sever

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl S. Buck

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

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Patrick White

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

Richelle E. Goodrich