A Quotes
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“Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.”
“Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.”
“Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.”
Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks
“Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.”
“Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces
“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.”
“Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.”
“Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.”
“Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.”
“Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine... I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.”
“Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive."”
“Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.”
“Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.”
“Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.”
“Although I am smiling and I promise I will be.”
“Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.”
“Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.”
“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, its homogenization of diverse social oppression; fourth, its simplification of the complexity and paradox of being privileged and unprivileged; and fifth its ruling out of intersectional space of diverse forms of oppression in reality.”
Source: Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
“Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.”
Source: The Meaning of Witchcraft
“Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.”
“Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.”
“Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.”
“Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes”
“Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.”
“Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.”
“Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.”
“Although I conquered the unknown, the side effects left me with so many questions that are smothering me with answers that are far out of my league.”
Source: Dear fathers of the fatherless children
“Although I consider myself pretty liberal, I'm not against punishment. There's nothing wrong with punishing someone who has done something wrong. Or with public safety. Lock up a pedophile and there are fewer raped children, but locking up a drug dealer just creates a job opening.”
“Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.”
“Although I could be wrong. If Roland Emmerich's thinking about doing that at some point, I'd be glad to don the long hair again. But sometimes you can just go a little bit further out with something you're only going to be doing for a short run”
“Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.”
“Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.”
Source: Lolita
“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.”
“Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.”
“Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.”
“Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.”
“Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.”
Source: Strong opinions
“Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.”
“Although I do not hope to turn again
Although I do not hope
Although I do not hope to turn”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“Although I do not like anyone intervening on my behalf, especially a man, I would have been very happy if Malloy had told Rodriguez to go fuck himself.”
Source: In the Cut
“Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,--for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. (Socrates)”
Source: Apology
“Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.”
“Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.”
“Although I don’t ever think I‘ll get enough mangoes in my life, eating one in the hot rain is one of the more perfect divine interventions. Mangoes will make you forget anything but mangoes.”
“Although I don't have role models, I do have admirers, and I love to see them win because it implies I can, too.”
“Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.”
“Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our efforts to speak and mean things are ultimately why we speak.”
“Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'”
“Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.”