An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

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

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins...

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

You can’t come in, colonel,” she told him. “You may be in command of your war, but I’m in command of my house.

How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather...

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so...

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

The moment you are doing something to SPITE someone, just know you are the one with something to lose, which is HONOUR and PRINCIPLE.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly...

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.”(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)

Why,’ I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, ‘it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and...

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it’s only evident that they’re learning from you. Maybe you taste bad – kind of like medicine, kind of like truth – and to them,...

When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.

For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one’s time, not in getting to know what one’s love really is, but in making...

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that’s not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being...

She’s been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she’s not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could...

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

…There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and...

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

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.