All Quotes

Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.
‐‐ Jon Feltheimer

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.
‐‐ David Novak

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
‐‐ Jung Chang

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.
‐‐ Jamie Redknapp

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
‐‐ Clyde Tombaugh

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.
‐‐ Paul Westerberg

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
‐‐ Adelaide Clemens

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
‐‐ Zedd

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
‐‐ Alex Flinn

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I'd be a fool to sit there and go, 'Yeah, let's use the telephone to telemarket myself'... Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic.
‐‐ Sebastian Maniscalco

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.
‐‐ John Paul Stevens

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.
‐‐ David D. Burns

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.
‐‐ Joe Rogan

Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Although not yet routine, many cancer centers have the technology to sequence some or all of a patient's cancer genome. This can provide massive amounts of valuable information about your cancer, including whether you have genetic mutations and other abnormalities for which new drugs are available.
‐‐ Kathy Giusti

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
‐‐ Anna Pavlova

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Although one soul lives in the whole body, and all the body's members are controlled by one soul, still the whole body and the whole soul and the parts of the universe are vivified by a certain total spirit.
‐‐ Giordano Bruno

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
‐‐ Greg Anderson

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.
‐‐ Mel Carnahan

Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!
‐‐ Paul Stamets

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.
‐‐ Robert Patterson

Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
‐‐ Philip Warren Anderson

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield