All Quotes

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.
‐‐ Erin Andrews

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

Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.
‐‐ Mike Moreno

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
‐‐ Steve Kanaly

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

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

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
‐‐ Berkeley Breathed

Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget those who perished and the lessons learned on Sept. 11, 2001.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
‐‐ Kage Baker

Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
‐‐ David Archuleta

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
‐‐ James Madison

Despotism is a long crime.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
‐‐ Samuel Horsley

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
‐‐ Joseph Heller

Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
‐‐ Ignazio Silone

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel.
‐‐ Eli Yishai

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
‐‐ Joseph Hume

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
‐‐ Aesop

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
‐‐ Barney Ross

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.
‐‐ Josephus Daniels

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
‐‐ Edward St Aubyn

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
‐‐ James Dickey

Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

Details create the big picture.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
‐‐ Giles Foden

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
‐‐ Najib Razak

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
‐‐ Jeremy Irvine

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley