Despite Quotes · Page 13

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

— Boyd K. Packer

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

— Manmohan Singh

“To all families who, despite their scars, still find a way to love.”

— Jeannette Walls

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

— Doris Lessing

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

— Jim Cooper

“You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!”

— Dr. Vivencio Ballano

Despite his South Indian connection, my husband Rohit doesn't have an accent at all.

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

— Ben Hecht

Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in Lois & Clark, I have the opportunity to show the…

— Teri Hatcher

Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment.…

— Jonah Goldberg

I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous…

— Bill Bryson

Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a…

— Jessica Maxwell

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite…

— Andrzej Wajda

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with…

— Sarah Polley

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Despite the changes which come into our lives and with gratitude in our hearts, may we fill our days-as much as we…

— Thomas S. Monson

I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in…

— Herbert Hoover

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged…

— Barack Obama

You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing…

— Pope John Paul I

Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite…

— Stephan James

I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the…

— John Carmack

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones…

— Bonnie Friedman

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely…

— Louise Imogen Guiney

For some unknown reason, bad boys always draw you in despite the fact that they are total jerks.

— Alexis Bledel

People will always have their opinion on you despite who you are and what your capable of.

— Ana Chable

“I don’t love you despite this. I love you, including this.”

— Alessandra Torre

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

— Desmond Tutu

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

— Billy Corgan

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

— Sara Blakely

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

— Daniel Radcliffe

“Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

— Narendra Modi

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

— Edmund Spenser

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

— Bashar al-Assad

The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

— Li Zhaoxing

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

— Maya Angelou

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

— Lee H. Hamilton

We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences.

— Timothy Morton