Top 10 It Is Often Said Quotes
#1. It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.
Kenneth Clark
#2. The instant of a great disaster, it is often said, is an elongated one. As if in witnessing its own demise the human mind is want to wind the moment out long and long still.
Tiffany Baker
#3. It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
William Graham Sumner
#4. It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
Salman Rushdie
#5. It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
Henri Rousseau
#6. It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
John Buchanan Robinson
#7. It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot
#8. It is often said that freedom doesn't come free. It is also said that true heroes can come from both the most unlikely and obvious of places. I believe that. And so this book is dedicated to my heroes who fight overseas and at home.
Kelly Moran
#9. It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
John Henry Newman
#10. It is often said that the divided condition of Christendom is an evil, and so it is. But the evil consists in the existence of the errors which cause the divisions and not at all in the recognition of those errors when once they exist.
J. Gresham Machen
#11. It is often said that The Self has no location, but Wu Hsin will now reveal exactly where to look. Look where there is no difference between The known and the unknown, Where there is no difference between Self and other, Where all differences have ceased to exist. Here you will find It.
Wu Hsin
#12. There are, it is often said by the more ecumenical prophets, many paths up the mountain. So long as it helps a person navigate the world and seek out what is good, a path, by definition, has value.
Robert Moor
#13. It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.
Joan Didion
#14. Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Franz Grillparzer
#15. It is often said that it's a man's world! We must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.
Julian Baggini
#17. It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
William Sloane Coffin
#18. It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?
Imre Kertesz
#19. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#20. It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
#21. It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.
George Mikes
#22. Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.
W.H. Newton-Smith
#23. It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.
Pearl Zhu
#24. It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett
#25. It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
Peter Kropotkin
#26. It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.
Hal Elrod
#27. It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
V.S. Pritchett
#29. It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.
Robert A. Agresta
#30. We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
Michael Pollan
#31. It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
Daniel Handler
#32. Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
Robertson Davies
#33. It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
Michael Behe
#34. The economic crisis, so conveniently operated and driven by the markets, by financial groups, by the needs of a globalized economy, faces the task of restoring social control, which the crisis of modernity lost sight of.
Zygmunt Bauman
#35. wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It
Aristotle.
#36. It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.
Don DeLillo
#37. The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
Barack Obama
#39. Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
Nathan Fielder
#40. I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
Norman Foster
#42. Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#43. I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.
Sarah Silverman
