Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community living together in community life which may be missing here in America.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement and I will go on with my drawing.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is 'What does a woman want?'

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved despite the government's false claims.

Things in our country run in spite of government not by aid of it.