Nevertheless Quotes

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(on the adoption of her son, David) My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand out family. Nevertheless, we have gone about the adoption procedure according to the law like anyone else who adopts a child. Reports to the contrary are totally inaccurate. The procedure includes an l8-month evaluation period after which time we hope to make this adoption permanent. This was not a decision or commitment that my family or I take lightly. I am overwhelmed and inspired by my trip to Malawi and hope that it helps bring attention to how much more the world needs to do to help the children of Africa. My heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes I have received and I hope the press will allow my family some room for us to experience the joy we feel to have David home.

- Madonna

(on Joseph L. Mankiewicz) "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, "Cleopatra" was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.

- James Mason

So nevertheless, what I`m saying is that what one is - one`s parameters are constantly narrowed by one`s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

- Jeremy Irons

On the adoption of her son, David: "My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand out family. Nevertheless, we have gone about the adoption procedure according to the law like anyone else who adopts a child. Reports to the contrary are totally inaccurate. The procedure includes an l8 month evaluation period after which time we hope to make this adoption permanent. This was not a decision or commitment that my family or I take lightly. I am overwhelmed and inspired by my trip to Malawi and hope that it helps bring attention to how much more the world needs to do to help the children of Africa. My heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes I have received and I hope the press will allow my family some room for us to experience the joy we feel to have David home." (October 17,2006)

- Madonna

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

- Dario Fo

(on Joseph L. Mankiewicz) "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, "Cleopatra" was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.

- James Mason

I watch (Steven Spielberg) movies, and know: Those are fairy tales. I understand what he does. And I make a film on cancer and frogs - however I want that many spectators nevertheless! I find that is a good goal, and I consider it a weakness of mine that I haven`t reached it yet.

- Paul Thomas Anderson

Their lives were intertwined in need, driven by greed and lust. Nevertheless, the court is convinced of his love for her,

- David Carter

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

- James Weldon Johnson

We shouldn`t have to prove our innocence ... but nevertheless we`ve been forced to. We have not one ounce of trust in the Boulder police.

- John Ramsey

The issue here is indeed control. It is the appropriation of material that they don`t own for a purpose that is, however altruistic and lofty and wonderful, nevertheless a commercial enterprise.

- Nick Taylor

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

- Andrzej Wajda

I have hurt people. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, there was damage done,

- John Rocker

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In performance terms, I have always gone well here, ... However, looking at the current situation, both in theory and in practice, we do not have a car capable of delivering a win. Nevertheless, I will face the weekend in a positive frame of mind, as you never know what might happen.

- Rubens Barrichello

The combined company will be stronger from a distribution and product standpoint. Nevertheless, we do not expect the merger of the two companies to alleviate the pressures from low fixed product sales and the challenging interest-rate environment.

- David Lewis

Nevertheless, there are gaps in receiving funding or planning for emergency preparedness, ... We must identify and address them, because these issues will remain with us for years to come. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix.

- Michael Shea

It`s too bad for us `literary` enthusiasts, but it`s the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

- William Moulton Marston

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

- William Greider

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

- Felix Adler

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

- Marquis de Sade

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

- Benny Hinn

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

- Andrea Dworkin

It was nevertheless decided that the recantation would be the basis for a criminal prosecution that would overthrow the other three statements and allege that the other three statements were falsely made,

- Scott Roberts

National Guard troops patrol the nation`s airports wearing jungle camouflage uniforms and carrying fixed bayonets. Nevertheless, it`s done nothing to hold down crime at airports. they`re still charging $4 for a candy bar.

- Argus Hamilton

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

- A. F. Alhajji

As a region we are politically weak. Nevertheless, Brazil is one of the biggest countries in the world and one of its greatest economic powers.

- Aidan O'Rourke

Nevertheless, the people are the masters of our country, and this fact will never change whether or not you voted in today`s referendum.

- Alan Heap

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

- Albert Rauch

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

- Alberto Santos Dumont

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

- Alex Culbertson

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

- Alex Hume

Nevertheless, several of my friends have from time to time tried to induce me to write a concise account of my steel invention in my own quiet way.

- Alexander Rahr

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

- Alexandra Starr

But nevertheless, it`s music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

- Alison Adams

Nevertheless, one doesn`t have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

- Alison Adams

I think that there`s been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

- Allen Alley

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

- Allen Johnson

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

- Alvina Tan

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

- Alysia Waters

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

- Alyson Mike

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

- Amanda Hillier

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven`t accepted it - and it`s recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

- Amanda McLean

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we`re training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

- Ammie Kim

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul`s desire.

- Andrea Bruna

It wouldn`t sit easily on one`s conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let`s dispense these drugs.

- Andrew Beard

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

- Andrew Norwood

He was OK. Not his real good outing. Nevertheless, he kept us in the game even with the early runs.

- Antonio Tuddles

Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers".

- Thomas Sowell