Despite Quotes

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

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

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.

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

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

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

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

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to 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.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

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.