Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.

- Michael Dirda

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

- Leonard Maltin

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

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.

- Kurt Huber

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

- Jim Balsillie

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

- Jackie Speier

I would never do anything just for spite.

- Justin Timberlake

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

- John F. Kennedy

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

- Benjamin Jowett

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

- Henry Rollins

I danced with passion to spite the music.

- Gelsey Kirkland

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

- George Eliot

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

- Frank Langella

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Don Marquis

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

- Denis Waitley

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

- Chin-Ning Chu

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

- Christian de Duve