Jake Sully: I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always wake up.
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.
I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.
And even though I know he’s a jerk,and I know all that he’s gonna do is hurt me,I still love him.I still want him,and I hate myself for it.
I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
