D Quotes
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“Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.”
“Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.”
“Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.”
“Despite my flat still looking like a bomb thought about going off but got too depressed and just sat in the corner eating Pringles and crying, I was in an oddly good mood.”
Source: Boyfriend Material
“Despite my frustration, the things that I’ve leaned on that are lying on the same ground that I am did not choose me. Rather, I chose them. Therefore, I chose the ground because I chose what couldn't keep me from being any place else.”
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
“Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community. When I got the wild card, it was the cherry on the cake that I could not have imagined. It was much more than I expected for myself.”
“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.”
“Despite my intellectual attempts to grasp it, I remain confounded beyond all repair to understand how God believes in us enough to choose us as the vehicles by which to destroy the darkness in the world that we, of our own accord brought into it. And while I may never understand all of it, it is my hope that I love God with enough passion and that I hate the darkness with enough ferocity to stand up and be that vehicle.”
“Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.”
Source: The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected
“Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)”
“Despite my misgivings about the girl and losing focus, a twinge of jealousy snaked through my gut at their easy banter.
"Do you know ech other?" I asked as casually as possible.
She didn't seem like the type who'd go for Vincent, but stranger things have happened. In hell.
She opened her mouth, but Vincent beat her to it.
"Of course." He looked at me like I was stupid. "She's my sister.”
Source: The Striker
“Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”
Source: Whispers Under Ground
“Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.”
“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.”
Source: Fool's Errand
“Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.”
Source: Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth
“Despite my so-called immortality, she realized bitterly, I haven’t really been alive since my family died more than a century ago. I have been just what the mortals think we are, one of the living dead.”
Source: Underworld
“Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.”
Source: Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
“Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way. And if you're blowing off Magnus, it's not because of me. It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love.”
Source: City of Glass
“Despite my substantial efforts, I have failed to find another soul. We have all scattered far and wide into the vastness of this space and cannot find another. I suspect by now we are all alone.”
Source: A Short Stay in Hell
“Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.”
Source: This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series
“Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.”
“Despite my vocabulary, my books, knowledge, I find myself folded against the far wall, bereft. I watch two daughters care for their own with an inertia equal to gravity. I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can't, at least, teach me how to touch my dead.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“despite myself, despite what he’d done and what he was, I came to love him. I do love him. It's just not a comfortable kind of love.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Despite nature's benevolence towards humanity, man often repays it with destruction instead of gratitude. Eventually, nature will respond, but by then it may be too late for mankind. Taking corrective action before time runs out can significantly alter the future outcome.”
“Despite nearly drowning and narrowly avoiding a mermaid's song, I'm intrigued by this new world. I'm curious how their ruler determines what makes a hero and what makes a villain. It can't be as simple as which side of town a character lives on, if they have horns or halos or use swords or spells. There might have been a time when I thought good and evil were clear-cut, but that all changed when Jack set out to save Christmas and ended up ruining it instead. He became the villain instead of the hero he yearned to be.
And what about me? I live in a world of monsters who, by most reckonings, would be considered villains. Yet that's the last way I think about gentle Behemoth, sweet little Zero, friendly Undersea Gal. Do they think of me as a hero simply because I come from a land of sweet dreams? Of course not. If they look at me with any admiration, it's because of my efforts as queen, not the crown alone.”
Source: Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.”
“Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.”
“Despite occasional failures and pain, a great man maintains his faith. He keeps the fire ablaze because he knows he carries something great.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation.”
“Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.”
“Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.”
Source: The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass: excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator
“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”
Source: The Face of War
“Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.”
Source: Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals
“Despite opposition from Main Street and numerous politicians, policy makers put together the rescue in the name of avoiding a financial crisis. Ultimately, the US Treasury got its money back and even made a modest profit, causing some to deem the rescue a success. It was a success in fiscal terms. But it encouraged lenders to finance risky bets without fear of the consequences.”
Source: Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis
“Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.”
“Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”
“Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.”
Source: Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life
“Despite our differences of opinion, I just want to say that I respect, appreciate, and love you.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.”
“Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.”
Source: Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity
“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”
Source: This Lullaby
“Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.”
“Despite our efforts to be practical and logical, humans remain emotional beings, and we all crave meaningful emotional interaction with other humans. We don’t just want meatballs, we want Grandma’s meatballs; we don’t just want a smartphone, we want to Think Different; we don’t just want to go to any old amusement park, we want to go to the Magic Kingdom; and we don’t want water, we want artesian water from Fiji. The story, the experience—that’s what is critical to creating, and the emotional connection established through that art is what drives commerce in the contemporary market.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.”
“Despite our financial struggles, he - the narcissist - would insist that we take lavish vacations, get $150 bottles of wine, and spare no expense. When the bills came in, he couldn’t be bothered, but he always expected the show to go on. Narcissists will tend to spend money they don’t have to throw a big show. One place this will sometimes emerge is in wedding planning. Many people I talked with reflected back on their weddings as though they were a “show”.”
Source: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
“Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.”