Quotes of: Though Keyword

I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth. Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that re...

Eat, Pray, Love

[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowled...

A Brief Theology of Revelation

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for all stain is impurity. A bee's swarm is evil ...

Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary

There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules. …There is pride, too, though–pride t...

All the Light We Cannot See

Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift. He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had...

At Last Comes Love

In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about this, and then he asks if he'll be able to go in lat...

The Trial

But even though our old home had physically seen better days, I knew in that moment that we had taken the soul of that house with us to our new home. And as I branched out and left our small town, I'd taken all the best bits of home life - the essenc...

At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life

[first lines] Narrator: This is the sad tale of the township of Dogville. Dogville was in the Rocky Mountains in the US of A, up here where the road came to its definitive end, near the entrance to the old abandoned silver mine. The residents of Dogv...

Dogville

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

City of Glass

What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

Changing Planes

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Corcitura

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Cosmos

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act according You are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.

The Dhammapada

Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.

The Dhammapada

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Dark Horse

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

Daimones

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

Don Quixote