{"quotes":[{"text":"Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.","author":"Manel Loureiro","tags":["despite","endowed","faith","horror","instinct","maybe","survive","survivors","will"],"id":12462,"author_id":"Manel+Loureiro"},{"text":"Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ability","belief","believe","depraved","depravity","despite","eyes-of-god","god","miracle","value","worth","worthy"],"id":120285,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.","author":"Jim George","tags":["believe","blesses","christian","despite","faith","god","opposition","prayer","stand"],"id":124604,"author_id":"Jim+George"},{"text":"But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["despite","fact","full","greater","life","risk","stand","that"],"id":203030,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["change","crisis","despite","disciplined","economic","government","inflation","money","prosperity","responsible","riches","stable","wealth"],"id":207724,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Determination in spite of the challenge makes us stronger.","author":"Ellen J. Barrier","tags":["challenges","despite","determination","determine","perseverance","persevere","strength","strong"],"id":236550,"author_id":"Ellen+J.+Barrier"},{"text":"But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["despite","each-other","fact","people","still","strangers","tiny","town"],"id":285879,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.","author":"Wilkie Collins","tags":["blinded","clever","cleverness","despite","disinterested","distrust","equal","eyebrows","foreign","glances","insight","insights","laughter","life","match","matching","memories","memory","remembering","remembrance","remembrances","resolution","resolutions","sound","stories","tales","thoughts","weakness","wiles","wily","wits","witty"],"id":291698,"author_id":"Wilkie+Collins"},{"text":"I love you,” was his reply. “I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["believe","best-interests","despite","faith","family","love","mothers","replies","see","sight","trust"],"id":343274,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}