Spite Quotes - page 19

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. (Feisal Abdul Rauf)
I danced with passion to spite the music. View quote
Gelsey Kirkland
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that. View quote
John Frankenheimer
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. View quote
Jacky Ickx
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them. View quote
Joni Eareckson Tada
In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result. View quote
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things. View quote
Leonard Maltin
For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself. View quote
Lukas Foss
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. View quote
Lupita Nyong'o
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. View quote
Major Taylor
If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it. (Andrew J. Bernstein)
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread. View quote
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. View quote
Hale White
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. View quote
Matt Blunt
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. View quote
Paul Mooney
You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry. View quote
Penelope Wilton
I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself. View quote
Randolph Scott
The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me. View quote
Sherri Shepherd
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America. View quote
Youssou N'Dour
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not. (Oscar Levy)
In spite of the many initiatives our society offers to help and support, recovery can be such a monumental task that some give up. They withdraw into themselves. Not least during Christmas and New Year is it hard to feel left out. Tonight my thoughts are with them. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark
Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. View quote
Rollo May
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. View quote
Rollo May
But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel-must feel themselves. View quote
Charles Churchill (satirist)