All Quotes

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
‐‐ George Andrew Olah

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
‐‐ Robert Winston

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
‐‐ Bill Haslam

Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield

Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
‐‐ Randall Kennedy

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
‐‐ Philippa Gregory

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
‐‐ Saad Hariri

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
‐‐ Sextus Propertius

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
‐‐ George Crumb

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.
‐‐ Eric Holder

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
‐‐ James K. Polk

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
‐‐ Robert Trout

Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
‐‐ Lynn Margulis

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
‐‐ Giorgio de Chirico

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.
‐‐ Stephen LaBerge

Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn't have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.
‐‐ John Seabrook

Although, the flesh is weak, the Spirit of God is always willing, and He makes us able.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
‐‐ Lalla Ward

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
‐‐ Zhou Yongkang

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
‐‐ Arthur Levitt

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
‐‐ John Lahr

Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.
‐‐ Mike Bouchard

Although the rugby league fraternity probably don't like it, the rugby union fraternity probably doesn't like it, it's cool for sportsmen, for young kids coming up, to know that there's not just that one door.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams