#despite

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. ↗

— Dave Barry

#biological #cells #despite #directions #egg

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

— Joseph Barbera

#back #came #despite #i #i came

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#best #children #despite #efforts #families

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

— Alexis Bledel

#draw #fact #jerks #reason #some

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

— Siobhan Fahey

#company #day #despite #having #hits

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#contradictions #despite #difficulties #everything #framework

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

— Berkeley Breathed

#despite #moral #simply #tell #world

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

— Benjamin Jowett

#child #clergy #dear #despite #god

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bad #being #despite #fact #ginsberg

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#agree #blair #brown #committed #country