Nevertheless Quotes

• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

  Joanna Lumley

  Another Day, Good Things

  "The Women of 'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie' on Killing Kate Moss and Wooing Jon Hamm". Interview with Anna Silman, www.thecut.com. June 30, 2016.

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• This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Certain, Mistaken

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• If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Too Much, Persons

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• Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

  Stephen Covey

  Moving, Way, Accepting

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

  Sissela Bok

  Self, Growth, Realizing

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage

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• Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

  Robert Loggia

  Offensive

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• And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fear, Love Life, Men

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• Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sun, Dies, Haughty

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• Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Choices, Parent

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• Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Special, Use, Literature

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• The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

  Sophocles

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

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• Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it.

  Zhuangzi

  Past, Reality, Doe

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Children, Science

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.379, Psychology Press

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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

  Wendell Berry

  Tasks, Whole, Knows

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Successful, Important, Needs

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Intellectual, Vices

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.62, Routledge

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• ... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, War, Mean

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

  Rene Magritte

  Common Sense, Add, World

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• We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Nice, Kind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

  Howard Stern

  Pain, Believe, Causes

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• Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Utopia, Stealing, Propaganda

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• You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

  David Rockefeller

  Kindness, Heart, Gentleman

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Spiritual, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.36

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