Despite Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

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

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

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.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

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

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.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

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

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.