#spit

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #having #i #i feel #like

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#born #bred #characteristics #children #country

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#ever #fame #famous #famous people #friendly

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#conservative #current #despite #ideology #men

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#film #harvey #i #made #spite

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material. ↗

— John Linder

#claims #contrary #despite #detect #effectively

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#got #somebody #spits #swallow #you