Spite Quotes

• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Black
  • Reason
  • Fame

• Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it... You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings. - Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Spite
  • Worthless
  • Ninja

• If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Contradictory
  • Cancel
  • Infirmities

• The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Art
  • America
  • Spite

• Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

  

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
  • Age
  • Common Sense
  • Spite

• All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

  

  Charles Brockden Brown
  • Powerful
  • Reason
  • Effort

• Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.

  

  George Sarton
  • Reason
  • Realizing
  • Appreciation

• To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Trying
  • Victory
  • Brave

• And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Missing

• You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Spite

• Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

  

  Sean Penn
  • People
  • Love Is
  • Spite

• It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Government
  • Jobs
  • Flawed

• With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Practice
  • Technique
  • Crafts

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