All Quotes

Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.
‐‐ Kai Bird

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.
‐‐ John Twelve Hawks

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
‐‐ George Lucas

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
‐‐ Mal Peet

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
‐‐ Martin Puryear

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.
‐‐ John Henry Carver

Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
‐‐ Harvey Korman

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.
‐‐ Jennifer McMahon

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
‐‐ Vera Wang

Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
‐‐ James Comey

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
‐‐ James Dobson

Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.
‐‐ Richard Roundtree

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
‐‐ Mary Astell

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
‐‐ Jane Grey

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
‐‐ Chrysippus

Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
‐‐ Yitzhak Rabin

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.
‐‐ Jeff Hawkins

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
‐‐ Peter Lynch

Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
‐‐ Patrick Chan

Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.
‐‐ Derek Blasberg

Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.
‐‐ Jean Alesi

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
‐‐ Chris Martin

Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.
‐‐ Sophie Lowe

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

Although it was hard to be traded, I have no hard feelings. I'm grateful to Dan Gilbert and the Cavs organization for 12 amazing years. I know I'm very fortunate. I'm leaving one great team and joining another. I can't wait to put on my new Warrior jersey.
‐‐ Anderson Varejao

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
‐‐ Charles Buck

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
‐‐ Justin Halpern

Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
‐‐ Dale T. Mortensen

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
‐‐ Ida B. Wells

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.
‐‐ Jim Gerlach

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
‐‐ David Crystal

Although measuring omega-3 levels in the blood seems like it would be an objective and accurate indicator of fish oil intake compared to using the subjects' reported dietary intake, this test does not accurately reflect long-term dietary intake.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift