#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 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

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 once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.' ↗

— Al Franken

#almost #asked #been #couple #day

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#beautiful paintings #deny #did #i #just

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#butter #cannot #despite #guns #love

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#black #bonus #bran #christmas #drives

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence