#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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#hard #however #long #may #road

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#agree #blair #brown #committed #country

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

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat. ↗

— Jim Costa

#address #before #congresses #dependency #despite

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

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#comes #day #doing #door #himself

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