#though

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#been #decided #even #fraternity #guy

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#ambition #itself #often #parent #though

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #answer #direct #direction #films

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#best #culture #know #said #thought

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#actively #being #expected #first #future

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know? ↗

— Clay Aiken

#after #autographs #be nice #before #bread

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see. ↗

— Josef Albers

#big #doing #how #i #instead

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#children #czechoslovakia #democracy #europe #free

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#high #life #live #makes #man

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#feelings #find #governing #hard #i