I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate…

“...despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.”

— Ian Rankin

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

— Kofi Annan

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship…

— Seth

Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now…

— Rachel Maddow

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the…

— Lupita Nyong'o

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions…

— Emma Thompson

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

— Tom Petty

I don't know why I keep on loving you despite the fact that I'll get hurt again.just like before.I never learn cause I don't…

— Nix

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

— William Saroyan

If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will…

— Watchman Nee

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on…

— Michael Medved

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

— Umair Haque