Often Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Often Quotes from famous persons: Edmund Hillary, Gavin Newsom, Walter Kirn, Eduardo Paes, Hema Malini. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Often Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

1
I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come tr

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
2
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
3
I say ‘here’s the thing’ a lot, both to alert people that I’m about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
4
There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone’s business.
5
Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds.
6
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
7
There are two books that I often travel with; one is ‘The Theory on Moral Sentiments‘ by Adam Smith. The other is ‘The Meditations.’ It’s not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
Wen Jiabao
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
James Geary
10
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
Howard Barker
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People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
12
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
13
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
14
The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.
15
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
16
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.
17
What I do know is that with a celebrity‘s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’
18
Often, I think bullying – especially in its adult, verbal forms – is the sort of thing you don’t realize till the end of the day, and it’s a horrible feeling to realize something wasn’t just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we’re all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.
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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Charles Mackay
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Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
21
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
22
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It’s a difficult game, but it doesn’t have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – ‘lobbies’ they call them in the States.
23
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
24
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
25
Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business’s real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company‘s business model at the very moment it should be in ‘customer discovery’ mode or iterating around market opportunities.
26
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Phaedrus
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William R. Alger
28
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore
29
Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
30
There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
31
In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
32
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
33
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
34
On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
35
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
36
People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it’s really more like Vegas.
37
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.
38
Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans – often children – lose their lives.
39
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
40
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.
42
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
43
So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.
44
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
45
I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
46
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
47
The pleasure in loversgifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.
48
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
49
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
50
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it’s the worst decision in your life. That’s fine. That’s not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It’s a sign that it’s normal; it’s on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.
51
I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
52
People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.
53
Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don’t fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.
54
Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner
55
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
56
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Otto Weininger
57
Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.
Mari Carmen Ramirez
58
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
59
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
60
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
61
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
62
I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
63
Ask yourself, how can I learn from the people around me. Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven‘t yet found a way to learn from them.
64
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
65
I think we’re all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don’t like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there’s a bit of that in me.
66
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
67
Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.
68
I try as much as possible to take a moment every so often, pause, and enjoy the journey.
69
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they’re necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that’s dangerous and they’ll boomerang.
Richard Chamberlain
70
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
71
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
72
In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
73
The roughest road often leads to the top.
74
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
75
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
Periander
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Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.
77
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
78
The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
79
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we’re also dark people with dark thoughts.
80
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that’s often overlooked in Little League.
Tug McGraw
81
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
82
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher
83
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
84
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height
85
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
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Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
87
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
88
Just because Pluto or comets aren’t as big as Jupiter doesn’t mean they are not scientifically important – indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.
89
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you’ve ever met.
90
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
91
You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn’t. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.
92
A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we’re excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.
93
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
94
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
95
As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man’s court, but as if everyone else – white and black – was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
96
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
97
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
Tamzin Merchant
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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
99
Oil your hair and take a head massage as often as possible for better blood circulation.
100
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
101
People often ask me if I believe in God, and I kinda have to, because I’m still here. I had not planned on living this long, and here I am.
102
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin
103
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
104
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
105
I’m often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she‘s only got one major fault – it’s called breathing.
106
While writing, I’m always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, ‘I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.’
107
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
108
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
109
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
110
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
111
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.
112
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
113
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant – that’s why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it’s why sunglasses are glamorous – but also not so far above us that we can’t identify with the person.
114
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
115
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
116
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‘oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.
117
I often tell my students not to be misled by the nameartificial intelligence‘ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.
118
My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.
Agnes Varda
119
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
120
We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
121
It’s not often that I’m being called femme fatale.
122
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
123
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
124
Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.
Mort Sahl
125
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
126
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
127
God’s way of answering the Christian‘s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil
128
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
129
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock
130
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That’s happened a lot. Or they’re often purely victims.
131
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
132
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
133
You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
134
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man‘s pleasure when they come a cropper.
135
I don’t cook very often but when I do I try and make Georgian food. I made a hinkali recently, which is like ravioli but is the size of your palm, with meat in the middle and thicker dough.
136
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
137
I feel that, as a person of color, I’ve always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.
138
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
139
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
140
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
141
Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.
142
When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.
Hugh Bonneville
143
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
144
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
145
I don’t say I create. I copy, of course. I’ve never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It’s a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.
Franco Moschino
146
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
147
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
148
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
149
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
150
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward
151
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
152
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world… Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
Irving Penn
153
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
154
My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.
155
We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you’ve got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
156
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe
157
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
158
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
159
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
160
Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.
161
I think life is difficult and that’s that. I am not at all – absolutely not at all – interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
162
I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
163
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
164
I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.
165
The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you’re bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.
166
The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it’s worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
167
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
168
Quite often, I will do something and think, ‘Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.’ I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.
169
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim
170
I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
171
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that’s why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool’s paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
172
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
173
More often than we realize, people see in us what we don’t see in ourselves.
174
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
175
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
176
In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And then the therapist often tries to get the client to feel what they’re feeling when they talk about those kinds of things.
177
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
178
I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
179
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
180
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.
Rita Coolidge
181
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
182
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
183
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.
184
By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.
Erving Goffman
185
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication‘ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
186
I’ve often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I’ve wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was… magic.
William Christopher
187
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
188
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
189
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men’s prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
190
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
191
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
192
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
193
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
194
The thing that I often ask startups on top of Ethereum is, ‘Can you please tell me why using the Ethereum blockchain is better than using Excel?’ And if they can come up with a good answer, that’s when you know you’ve got something really interesting.
195
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum
196
It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
197
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
198
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it’s no good you asking ‘What’s on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?’ because often I can’t even see the table!
199
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
200
I’ve been offered political shows before, and I don’t know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions – there’s consequences to them. I often think I’m wrong, so I really don’t like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
201
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Every so often, I’ll look at myself in the mirror and go, ‘You’re a bad mother,’ you know? Like, ‘You’re a bad dude, man, and you’re gonna show the world who you are when the time is right.’
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Some dramatic event often crystallizes popular attention, and the world turns on a dime.
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen‘s.
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People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
Bob Nelson
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
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All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians’ warning that correlation is not causation.
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We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that’s how self-loathing is made palatable.
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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.
216
What’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you’re just so excited to see anything – the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan
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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
221
Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
222
‘Death with dignity‘ is our society’s expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life’s last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature’s ongoing rhythms.
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I love touring – I don’t do it as often as I should.
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Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man‘s atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.
William Shawcross
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
228
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
229
People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
232
I’ll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad – ‘Just look at Magic and how well he’s doing.’
233
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
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A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford
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Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
Alexander Alekhine
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For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Richard Baker
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The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
238
Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world’s unpaid care work.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
241
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
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Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what’s needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
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Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
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I don’t talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Mary Webb
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
James Nachtwey
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
251
What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.
252
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
253
I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh
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The most obvious things are often right there, but you don’t think about them because you’ve narrowed your vision.
Steven Levitt
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Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it’s even begun.
Catherine McCormack
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
257
Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
259
The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often.
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I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
Burgess Meredith
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
262
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
264
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
266
Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology – that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.
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Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.
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I started on ‘Saturday Night Live‘ the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn’t get a guest – which was often back then since he was just starting out – he would just call me down to be a guest.
270
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
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Very often, when leaders repeat things over and over, they are preparing you for when that meme actually emerges in reality.
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
John Gay
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in ‘Toward a New Cold War‘ are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is ‘bad.’
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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson
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When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.
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Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation‘ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
278
In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.
279
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
280
Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric – not feminism – can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive – biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on – I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.
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If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Francis Picabia
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
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I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Amelia Earhart
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Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
287
The worst men often give the best advice.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
289
Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).
N. Bhaskara Rao
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Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
291
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
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Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.
293
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
294
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.
295
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.
299
I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.
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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
301
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word ‘citizen’ was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.
302
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
303
I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling.
304
Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves – their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.
305
When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you’ve heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
309
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.
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We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
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You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair
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What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Virginia Satir
313
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
Brian Schmidt
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Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
315
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
316
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.
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Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.
318
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
320
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
321
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
Andre Malraux
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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
323
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
324
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
325
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don’t have to resist you.
326
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
327
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
328
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.
329
In barely one generation, we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them – often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
330
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri
331
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
332
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
333
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
334
Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
335
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
336
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
337
Half a truth is often a great lie.
338
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
339
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
340
Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.
Minna Antrim
341
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
Robert Burns
342
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
343
My work is often a therapy for myself – a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.
344
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
345
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
346
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
347
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again… Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Barbara Hepworth
348
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
349
Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
350
Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
351
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
352
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
353
Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.
354
It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money.
355
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
356
The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.
357
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
358
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.
359
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
Michael Faraday
360
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer‘s Society.
361
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
362
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
363
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
George William Norris
364
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
365
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
Os Guinness
366
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
367
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase ‘the play of ideas’ and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
368
To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.
369
For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night – without phone calls disturbing me.
370
Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
371
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
372
You shouldn’t feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol’ bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC.
373
Things are difficult for outsiders in the industry, and it is very evident, too. It does not mean that insiders have it easy or that it’s impossible for outsiders to break in. More often than not, the difference is about how successes and failures are viewed and magnified.
374
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
375
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
376
It’s our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won’t make your soul pretty.
377
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
378
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it’s hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
381
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
382
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn
383
Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
Kangana Ran
aut
384
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson
385
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
386
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
387
A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.
388
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Carl von Clausewitz
389
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.
390
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
391
When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I’ve been surprised by the richness of nature.
392
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
393
So, do you live around here often?
394
Given the slow pace of Washington‘s bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday‘s problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.
395
Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they’d originally anticipated.
396
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
William Pollard
397
Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most.
398
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn’t want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
399
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
400
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
401
I often get asked if I think I’m ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.
402
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
403
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
Richard Grant
404
One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
405
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
406
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
407
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
408
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
409
Dependency arguments often come from elites – either aid agencies or governments – and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey
410
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa
411
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
412
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don’t let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
413
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
414
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it’s a role that’s underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
415
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
416
For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, ‘No no no nooo!’ You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who’s trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn’t.
417
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
418
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
419
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Ellen Goodman
420
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
421
A problem shared is a problem halved, but as with so many problems affecting women – periods, menopause, post-natal depression – we often feel embarrassed, as if we’re moaning or just plain wrong to air them.
422
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
423
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
424
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
425
Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.
426
When people are in crisis and pose a threat to themselves or others, those closest to them are often the first to see the warning signs.
427
Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
428
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
429
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind
430
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
431
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It’s either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there’s always a buzzing beneath you.
432
It’s often said that life is strange. But compared to what?
433
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
434
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
435
Smart people, often times, are miserable people.
436
Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.
437
I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I’m always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.
438
Too much mercy… often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
439
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
440
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
441
Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.
442
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
443
Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
Yulia Tymoshenko
444
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
445
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
446
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
447
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
448
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
Charles Edison
449
I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
450
I get described as ‘interesting’ a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.
Anna Maxwell Martin
451
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
452
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
453
Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
454
We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.
455
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
456
The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
457
All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.
458
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
459
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word ‘impossible’ is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
460
I’ve often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
461
In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.
462
463
I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.
464
Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.
465
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
466
I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.
467
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan Perlis
468
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
469
I do have a way of playing piano where it’s very melodic and emotional, but then often it’s great if whoever‘s singing doesn’t sing exactly what‘s in the piano melody, but maybe it’s connected in some way.
470
The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
471
I’m intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person’s life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
472
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
473
There’s a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood – that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
474
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
475
I’m going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn’t cause them any later embarrassment.
Julian Cope
476
Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
477
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
478
Saying ‘I’m wrong’ is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it’s simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.
479
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
480
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith
481
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
482
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
483
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Austin O’Malley
484
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
485
Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
486
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
487
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
488
It’s not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.
489
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
490
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I’ve been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
Edgar Meyer
491
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
492
There’s an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
493
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
494
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
495
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
496
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
497
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
498
I often obsess so much about things that I can’t get done, that I ruin other things.
499
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
500
Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
501
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
502
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
503
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
504
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people’s concerns.
505
Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries.
506
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
507
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
508
Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.
509
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
510
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
511
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
512
People think of politicians having true power, but that’s less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.
513
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
514
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity’s place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
Jill Tarter
515
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis
516
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
517
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Claudia Black
518
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises
519
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
520
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
521
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
522
Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
523
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
524
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
525
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
526
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson
527
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
528
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
529
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.
530
Assume the best intent in others around you. You will often be right, and even when you’re not, people can rise to your view of them. Not always, but enough that I believe it’s worth it.
531
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Hippocrates
532
If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won’t feel like kissing her.
533
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler
534
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
Benjamin E. Mays
535
A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.
536
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
537
What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome with him? Did you spend much time together off-screen? Those are a small sampling of the inquiries I’m asked often, wherever I go around the world.
538
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
539
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Primo Levi
540
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
541
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
542
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I’m tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
Evelyn Underhill
543
We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven’s sake, don’t move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don’t tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
Tom McCall
544
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
545
Difficult times often bring out the best in people.
546
You don’t really get Jesus saying very often there’ll be pie in the sky when you die. He’s really talking about now and today, and it’s supposed to be like that. You’re supposed to delight in what’s right in front of you.
547
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
548
Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don’t often notice that they’re thugs, usually because they’re also idiots.
549
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
550
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
551
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
552
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
553
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
554
Stereotypes exist because there’s always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.
555
I love Japanese food – it’s a really healthy way of cooking and it is very easy: I often just steam the vegetables and fish together, make a space for the noodles, and I have a great healthy meal in 15 minutes.
556
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
557
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
558
I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
559
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
560
We are often told we can’t have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress – you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.
561
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
562
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
563
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Edward Fitzgerald
564
I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.
565
Balance takes work. Lots of it. There is no endpoint in balance, no goal, no finalization. Balance requires practice, patience, and – most importantlymovement. We often get stuck in our ways and form habits based on our fears and driven by our insecurities.
566
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
567
Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the ‘how’ of the ways we do our work rather than the ‘what’ of the work itself.
568
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
569
Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.
570
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
571
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
572
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
Camille Pissarro
573
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
574
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant‘s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
575
Fiction is like a spider‘s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
576
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
577
‘Honesty’ in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
578
The market is often stupid, but you can’t focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.
579
I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
580
I find that as an athlete, we don’t get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.
581
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
582
Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?
583
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
584
We wouldn’t think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.
585
If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It’d be best if we can communicate often.
586
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
587
Good is often the enemy of best.
588
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
589
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
590
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can – and often is – censored by Chinese authorities.
591
I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson‘s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
592
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates
593
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don’t want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies – Monsanto is the most famous of them – control so many of the seeds we grow.
594
As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you’re always failing.
595
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.
Diane Abbott
596
There are things that I am nostalgic about from the ‘good old days.’ I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it’s still warranted, but it’s done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.
597
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust – not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
598
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
599
It is often quite impossible to gauge the mood of the Chamber in advance, particularly on big occasions. One moment, it is relaxed and good-humoured; at the next, it can be angry and querulous, and the House in this mood can be a formidable arena.
600
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
601
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
602
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
603
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
604
I don’t really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don’t really have the occasion to wear couture too often.
605
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
606
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew‘s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
607
In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It’s the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.
608
Ideas must be put to the test. That’s why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I’ve had what I thought were great ideas that just didn’t work.
609
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
610
Despair often breeds disease.
611
Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they’re not just lying around on the surface.
612
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
613
Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, ‘Church’ has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven’s viewpoint into history.
614
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia Mott
615
I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.