Top 100 Despite All Quotes
#1. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.
Ai Yazawa
#2. The problem is I do not want to forget. Despite all the pain, The hurt, I still want To remember you. I still want my heart To beat to the sound Of your name.
David Jones
#3. I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
Kevin Mitnick
#4. Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
David Harsanyi
#5. You've kept that fire burning all this time, despite all you've lost. There's nothing stronger than that. Nothing.
Mia Sheridan
#6. Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.
Jessica Maxwell
#7. No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves.
R. Scott Bakker
#8. It made me hope he would tell me that he still needed me despite all that he had, that he really missed me and wanted me back, but he didn't.
Durjoy Datta
#9. See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#10. The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.
Walter Kaufmann
#11. Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
Billy Corgan
#12. Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage.
Rabindranath Tagore
#13. Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
Casey Kasem
#14. She was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.
Paulo Coelho
#15. His body was standing to attention. Despite all his efforts his stomach stood at ease.
Terry Pratchett
#16. I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.
Thom Yorke
#17. If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!
Fumio Obata
#18. Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory.
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#19. First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
Mitchell Reiss
#20. Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/
I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.
Monique Wittig
#21. Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
Errol Morris
#22. Despite all that had been spilled, was the cup still half full? Or did a crumb of Wellbutrin just lodge free from between his brain's teeth, offering a morsel of undigested happiness? The cup was half full enough. Despite
Jonathan Safran Foer
#23. Despite all she has achieved, she's as enthusiastic as ever.
Paulo Coelho
#24. Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.
Nikki Rowe
#25. Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.
Brodi Ashton
#26. In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.
J.D. Vance
#27. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
Bill Jensen
#28. What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
Jane Addams
#29. For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
Ralph Ellison
#30. Against all odds and despite all evidence to the contrary, still we trust that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, of our personal tunnel anyway.
Diane Schoemperlen
#31. I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.
Rachel Cohn
#32. Despite all of our pretenses and fantasies, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our genes. History without the wildlands is no history at all.
Edward O. Wilson
#33. Despite all the confidence I had in my ability to do my job, I hadn't had any in myself as a person.
Jana Deleon
#34. When it really comes down to it, the sense of philanthropy is born out of boredom, too much time and resources on your hands. Despite all your posturing and eloquent speeches, you would never let your manicured hands become soiled by those you claim to aid.
Tyler Chase
#35. I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.
Dana Hussein
#36. Perhaps it's just that people, wherever they live on the globe, somehow share the same visions or fantasies. It's in our nature, wired into the hard drive, so to speak. Despite all the differences, sooner or later, we still come up with the same answers. - Harry Hole
Jo Nesbo
#37. To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#38. Despite all the ways she'd messed up in life, she must've somehow gained God's favor anyway.
Karen Kingsbury
#39. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
#41. From my point of view, the American financial system - including banks and investment banks - is far safer because of capital and liquidity requirements. Despite all the turbulence so far this year, I don't think anyone's questioning our system. And that, obviously, is a good thing.
Jamie Dimon
#42. Despite all differences of class or ideology, mentally, emotionally, we all have the same basic nature.
Dalai Lama XIV
#43. We are sisters. Despite all we've been through, all that we have held against each other, we are sisters until death comes for us.
Marie Lu
#44. Suddenly, despite all the fun she'd had, Azzah felt down. Watching the champagne bubbles sparkle and fizz in her glass, she realized by tomorrow all the bubbles would be gone, and she'd have to go back to her flat, dull, fizz-less life.
Christian F. Burton
#45. As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
Luc De Clapiers
#46. There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery.
Tom Robbins
#47. Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Jose Marti
#48. I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
Rajeev Shukla
#49. Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
Erica Jong
#50. Despite all the labels, in most ways I'm really not different from anyone else. I guess if you had to label me, you could say I'm like the girl next door. I'm like the girl a few doors down.
Ellen DeGeneres
#51. Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
Trinh T. Minh-ha
#52. This time was different. The tools of this era
phones, computers
enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.
Mitch Albom
#53. The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
Timothy Noah
#54. I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.
Stephanie Nielson
#55. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
#56. You simply have to move forward despite all the notions about how we are supposed to be.
Nancy Horan
#57. Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
Yahya Jammeh
#59. Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
Aleksandar Hemon
#60. You didn't force me. Against my better judgment, and despite all the therapy sessions and spells, I just couldn't help myself. You're like crack to my heart." His gaze narrowed. "Did you just compare me to a highly addictive, dangerous drug?" "Yes." "Mon amour.
Eve Langlais
#61. In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#62. Despite all of the violence, suffering and wars, don't forget to sing the song of love, harmony, and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate ... Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.
Gerald R. Ford
#64. There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear ...
Jim Butcher
#65. Despite all of the negative challenges we have in life, we must take time to actively exercise our faith. Such exercise invites the positive, faith-filled power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives.
Richard G. Scott
#66. Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
Joel Salatin
#67. Horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our scientific progress, there are still things out there that defy the rational, and can scare the living daylights out of us.
Peter James
#68. I know, despite all the gloom and self-doubt that bubbles up from the deep when you get dumped, that you did not represent my last and best chance of a relationship. So, you know. Nice try. Close, but no cigar. See you around.
Nick Hornby
#69. Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.
Nostradamus
#70. The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.
Dalai Lama
#71. I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
Edward Gorey
#72. I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.
Ryan Adams
#74. Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan ...
Stephen Baxter
#75. Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.
Dana Hussein
#76. We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Paul Muldoon
#78. In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
Bill Vaughan
#79. Despite all the talk of radical Islam and CHristian fundamentalism, the most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not the Islamic State or the Bible Belt, but Silicon Valley.
Yuval Noah Harari
#80. Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.
Shawn Amos
#81. I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.
Chris Hughes
#82. Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.
Christopher Pike
#83. Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into
her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.
Sherry Thomas
#84. Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.
George Harrison
#85. Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
Thomas Sowell
#86. I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#87. Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never had, you must not do this, don't you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? Yes, loved you, better than Robert even, or Renly, for you were the one unloved, the one who needed me most.
George R R Martin
#88. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)
Barack Obama
#89. We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention to our common moral values and consolidate Russian society on this basis. I think that this is an absolute priority.
Vladimir Putin
#90. Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#91. Children who are ill, in their innocence and plight, teach adults many lessons, and one of those lessons is that 'Life must go on. Face it. Live it. Enjoy it. Despite all the odds.' That is bravery, in the eyes of a sick child.
Kcat Yarza
#92. No matter what you have done in the past, despite all your mistakes, you are still divinely loved and always will be.
Catherine Carrigan
#93. Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.
Gary Weiss
#94. Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Kate Forsyth
#95. Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.
Julie Burchill
#96. At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.
Tea Obreht
#97. Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.
Ronald Coase
#98. Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
Barry Ritholtz
#99. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.
Vladimir Nabokov
#100. Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.
Andrew Sean Greer
