#spite

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bad #being #despite #fact #ginsberg

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#demands #despite #doing #enjoy #good

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

#because #believe #carry #dropped #everything

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#anybody #away #been #despite #i

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#cities #despite #earth #evident #flooded

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#exactly #happen #how #i #like

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#able #answer #answered #been #despite

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#action #against #alternative #authorities #being

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#despite #had #hold #i #left

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#girl #i #intimate #kind #order