Despite Quotes

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.

I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.