#spite

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reassurance #reassuring #respite #soothing #inspirational

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

#believe #despite #everything #heart #i

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#arab countries #because #beliefs #circumstances #closely

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments. ↗

— Robert Barany

#conducted #did #even #experiments #fact

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#always #consistent #controversial #decisions #despite

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. ↗

— Frances Burney

#anything #create #cruel #despite #earth

But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics. ↗

— Jay Carney

#creativity #economy #effective #engine #going

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd. ↗

— Walter Crane

#apparently #attack #cope #could #crowd

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#delusion #despite #evidence #lack #people

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#britain #enjoy #hard #i #life