Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

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.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.