#spite

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#been #despite #done #getting #i

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. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#consequences #dangers #does #human #man

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#achieve #budget #clinton #despite #divided

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#gains #innovation #markets #most #organizations

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

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clouded #compelling #decade #despite #even

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

— George Eliot

#experience #had #his #into #maxims