All Quotes

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.
‐‐ Michael Hayden

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.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
‐‐ Yahya Jammeh

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
‐‐ Errol Morris

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

Despite all the dysfunction in Washington, I believe that when it comes to helping veterans and keeping our fundamental promises as a country, we can come together and do the right thing.
‐‐ John Delaney

Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
‐‐ Joel Salatin

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
‐‐ Timothy Radcliffe

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.
‐‐ Nostradamus

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.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

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.
‐‐ Dana Hussein

Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

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.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.
‐‐ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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.
‐‐ John Linder

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.
‐‐ Steven Sinofsky

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
‐‐ Anne Frank

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.
‐‐ Peter Lawford

Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.
‐‐ John Chilcot

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
‐‐ Bruce Schneier

Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their space capabilities. A U.S. withdrawal from the industry will only allow others to surge in their own capabilities, potentially impacting our national security and technology competitiveness in the future.
‐‐ Nick Lampson

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson