All Quotes

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.
‐‐ Michael Rosenbaum

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.
‐‐ Richie Havens

Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
‐‐ Jonathan Coleman

Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.
‐‐ Shelley Berman

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
‐‐ Anna Seward

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
‐‐ Eliza Cook

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
‐‐ Gilbert White

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
‐‐ John Webster

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
‐‐ Jane Taylor

Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.
‐‐ Vincent McNabb

Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.
‐‐ Cesar Chavez

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
‐‐ Igor Luksic

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
‐‐ Robert Greene

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Though Mohyeldin's journalistic reputation continues to grow - born in Egypt, raised in Michigan, started as a gofer for NBC News, reared as a producer at CNN, first appeared on-camera for Al Jazeera in 2006 - his is hardly a household name, not in America at least.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
‐‐ Dayananda Saraswati

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
‐‐ Jean M. Auel

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
‐‐ Carre Otis

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
‐‐ Laura Bush

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
‐‐ John Polanyi

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
‐‐ Allen Boyd

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Though pigs have been proven susceptible to a porcine spongiform encephalopathy, the National Pork Producers Council claims that no naturally occurring cases of 'mad pig' disease have ever been discovered.
‐‐ Michael Greger

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
‐‐ Matthew Green

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.
‐‐ Juan Williams