Top 100 Though It Quotes
#1. She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.
Tom Perrotta
#2. And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Winning. We want to win; it may go otherwise. We accept. Losing. We never want to fall though it goes otherwise. Shouldn't we accept?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#4. Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.
Viktor E. Frankl
#5. It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.
Philip E. Berger
#6. Who said anything about shame?" She gestured down to her naked body, even though it was covered by the blanket. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're not strutting about, boasting to everyone. I certainly would be if I'd tumbled me.
"Does your love for yourself know no bounds?"
"Absolutely none.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
Jimmy Carter
#8. She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#9. I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.
Molly Antopol
#10. Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
Elias Canetti
#11. 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.
Anthony Hopkins
#12. Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.
Sandra Cisneros
#13. this voice is louder than any other though it does not speak
Nejoud Al-Yagout
#14. '90210' was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn't really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don't know if you want to say '90210' was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable - in a very glamorous environment.
Darren Star
#15. I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
Keith Stanfield
#16. Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#17. There is something about the wind ... even though it can't be seen it brushes against our soul and we know it is there even during the silence.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare.
Sheldon Vanauken
#19. If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]
Eric Metaxas
#20. Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Harry Johnston
#21. Even though it is a Great Right to Vote :
I refuse to participate on the elections :
Petra Hermans
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Petra Hermans
#22. It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man ... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#23. Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding?
Emily Post
#25. On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea
Jill Mansell
#26. People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.
Emile Hirsch
#27. Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.
John Rocker
#28. When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.
Paul Auster
#29. ...it was actually the first time I've been shot at." "Congrats? It's New Orleans. I'm sure that won't be the last, though it doesn't sound like something to put on a cake." "Greetin' card either.
K.D. Williamson
#30. The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
John Gurdon
#31. Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Robert Hutchison
#32. She had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.
Elizabeth Goudge
#33. There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
Friedrich Schiller
#34. Consciousness is the state that induces action, though it does not inspire it. You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#35. Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assuming that you get the contemptuous joke. You've been admitted, or readmitted, to a club, though it may be the club of the second-rate.
David Denby
#36. If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
John Cotton
#37. There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.
Sir Fulke Greville
#38. I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you?
Nouriel Roubini
#39. Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.
John Henry Newman
#40. It was a perfect moment and she was shocked to feel a tear roll slowly down her cheek. The warm droplet reached his finger where it lay against her skin, and even though it was far too dark to see anything clearly, she sensed that he was bringing it up to his mouth.
Emily Arden
#41. Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin
or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.
Leo Tolstoy
#43. Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.
Shulamith Firestone
#44. Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?
Amitav Ghosh
#45. Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her - that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
George Eliot
#46. Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it's difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you'll be compromising your standards?
Frank Sonnenberg
#47. Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions ...
Gore Vidal
#48. The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
Saint Augustine
#49. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle.
#50. That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.
George S. Clason
#52. There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.
John Daido Loori
#53. I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.
Kelli O'Hara
#54. Depression is like ... when you don't want cheese anymore. Even though it's cheese.
Jenny Lawson
#55. I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.
Rebel Wilson
#56. Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands.
Keith Stuart
#57. I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness ... It is the inattentive reader
who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
Michel De Montaigne
#58. She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Holly Black
#59. It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
Bobby Charlton
#60. Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.
Rowan Atkinson
#61. I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.
Michael Emerson
#63. Consciousness cannot be glimpsed as though it were something outside yourself, because it is you.
Belsebuub
#64. Even though it was only the word 'like', it roughly followed the same rules as the other L word.
Marshall Thornton
#65. Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.
Ashwin Sanghi
#66. Alone, I was strident and articulate in a way I could never be when I faced him. His presence made me shrink, and though it irritated me, I also looked forward to that sensation of being dwarfed, couldn't wait to sit beside him in his office again.
Siri Hustvedt
#67. December is an old friend; it reminds you of the past, together you share some laughs and tears, you feel warm-hearted though it's freezing outside. But, the goodbye is inevitable. May the memories we share with this friend next year be filled with comfort, peace and Love.
Mohamed Atef
#68. From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
Francis Chan
#69. Cancer though, it was a fickle friend that didn't care about your age, gender or race. It would move in take up residence and eventually kick you to the curb, it was a mean landlord and didn't care who it hurt in order to get what it wanted.
Ella Frank
#70. I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves.
Samuel Adams
#71. Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
Wayne Coyne
#72. Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.
Patrick Hamilton
#73. Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him.
Ahdaf Soueif
#74. You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#76. On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.
Stella Gibbons
#77. My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to jump. I have learned over time to jump - and though it is scary, I know somewhere inside me that I will be caught.
Maria Bello
#78. I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part.
Skylar Grey
#79. We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always, though it often is, his original character developed or withered, attenuated or enlarged; it is sometimes the exact reverse, like a garment that has been turned.
Marcel Proust
#80. Love will never condemn you for being lost, but love will not let you stay there alone, even though it will never force you to come out of your hiding places.
Wm. Paul Young
#81. I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.
Chris Hoy
#82. 'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with 'Star Wars: Clone Wars,' we're starting to see a merging, though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something 'Star Trek' was known for.
George Takei
#83. So why are you here?"
He lifted his hands and made as if to lay them on her arms, but just before they touched he stopped and let them fall. Then, simply, as though it were all the explanation she could ever need, he said, "Because I love you.
Aprilynne Pike
#84. Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'
Eve Bunting
#85. There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
Ben Sherwood
#86. They would go about town sighing and talking to themselves. "I love you," they would say to the imagined beloved, though it might have appeared to someone else that they were speaking to a snow shovel or an egg crate.
Mark Helprin
#87. I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably on my side in this affair.
Barbara Honigmann
#88. He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream
clearly coming from a small, female child. It was highly acoustical, as though it were reverberating within four tiled walls.
J.D. Salinger
#89. 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
#90. Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.
Arti Honrao
#91. The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
William Blackstone
#92. More than that, though, it gained a definite spiritual chill. Malevolent energy hovered around us, slow and thick like half-frozen honey. There was a gloating, miserly quality to it, bringing to my mind images of old Smaug lying in covetous slumber upon his bed of treasure.
Jim Butcher
#93. The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
Edward William Lane
#94. Because even though it might burn the whole world to the ground, true love can never die.
J.T. Geissinger
#95. A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.
Louisa May Alcott
#96. I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.
Susie Orbach
#97. Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.
Robert Robinson
#98. Proceeding with caution and proceeding slowly are sometimes two different things. In certain circumstances, momentum could be more important than caution,
though it was never wise to dispense with wariness.
Dean Koontz
#99. He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.
Franz Kafka
#100. She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.
Virginia Woolf
