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

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter..

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart..

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it..

Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it..

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change..

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her..

You don't get there because, you get there in spite of..

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas..

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice..

In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been ….

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances….

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything..

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them..

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms..

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter..

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them..

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances..