#spite

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. ↗

— Peter Straub

#buddies #contrary #despite #efforts #fear

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#believed #despite #end #idealistic #innocents

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#appropriated #billion #coast #congress #despite

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#desire #goals #hopes #life #respite

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#despite #english #fact #i #i think

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#cynicism #despite #good #good time #hollywood

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#spiteful #trifle #would

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#despite #family #friends #know #notoriety

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#danger #endeavoring #go #occupy #ought