Top Spite Quotes
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
Otis Williams
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May 
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May
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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis
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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.
Leonard Maltin
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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler
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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
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emile M. Cioran
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas de Chamfort
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