#spit

Pride will spit in pride's face. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#pride #spit #will

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#am #been #business #changes #decades

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#buildings #cities #houses #like #lined

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#also #communication #despite #forget #handy

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#among #came #change #consider #despite

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. ↗

— Frank Langella

#because #neuroses #spite #start #them

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#cannot #country #despite #destroyed #fate

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #having #i #i feel #like

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#born #bred #characteristics #children #country