The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.
I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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.
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.
Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.
Obama is running again for spite.
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.