Top 100 Not Often Quotes
#1. Want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon. However, it is not often that you have
Esther Hicks
#2. I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.
Jaye Davidson
#3. It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
Samuel Johnson
#4. I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.
Alexandre Dumas
#6. A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.
Sydney Smith
#7. I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.
Kami Garcia
#8. What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
Paulo Coelho
#9. Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)
W.C. Fields
#10. The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#12. THE SEX & CASH THEORY - The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.
Hugh MacLeod
#13. I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.
Matt Smith
#14. Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.
George Eliot
#15. You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Mario Puzo
#16. In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
Clarence Darrow
#17. Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Paul Farmer
#18. It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
David Hewson
#19. I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.
John C. Meyer
#20. Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point
a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest
our best for His glory.
Oswald Chambers
#21. It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death. Is it not so, Jacques?
Charles Dickens
#22. While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
Robert Genn
#23. In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of." "But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.
Jane Austen
#24. A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.
Anuj
#25. It is not often one chooses a demon over an angel.
So they told me. But this demon was the only one who made me feel safe.
Heather Heffner
#26. I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
Ian Fleming
#27. Dandy, Martin replied, once again pleased with his response. A girl can make a guy feel good, great, and even fabulous, but how often does a lady hear that her man is feeling dandy?
Not often, he guessed.
Matthew Dicks
#28. We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
Samuel Johnson
#29. Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
Edwidge Danticat
#30. It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.
Jane Austen
#31. Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.
Anthony Trollope
#32. I feel uneasy. It's not often that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.
Veronica Roth
#33. Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
Alexander Pope
#34. Raphael says, "Honor is a trait not often found in men, but when it is, it can change everything.
Daniel O'Connell
#35. Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.
Jane Austen
#37. I have found that people do not often want to believe the truth. It is of little value to them.
Terry Goodkind
#38. If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen
#39. Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society ... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel
an intense awareness of human loneliness.
Frank O'Connor
#40. I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.
Victoria Chang
#41. We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
Adam Clarke
#42. Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.
Jane Bowles
#43. Sometimes the travelers were wise enough to put their clothes on backward for protection - but not often; they mostly died. Vasya
Katherine Arden
#44. The good thing about setting your expectations low is that you will not often be disappointed.
Danielle L. Jensen
#45. I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
Agatha Christie
#46. There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
Tori Amos
#47. It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
Veronica Roth
#48. The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
Edmund Burke
#49. The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.
Alexandre Dumas
#50. Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
Neil Young
#51. For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more
remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
E.B. White
#53. People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.
Andy Murray
#54. It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Carla Gugino
#55. I should hardly call her a lively girl - she is very earnest, very eager in all she does - sometimes talks a great deal and always with animation - but she is not often really merry.
Jane Austen
#56. If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.
Jim Rash
#57. It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
Lincoln Steffens
#58. Still, when the shooting and shelling stopped, they could sometimes -- not often, but sometimes -- see that they were just someone's son, or husband, or brother.
Craig Siegel
#59. It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
Margaret Mitchell
#60. I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
Laura Dekker
#61. 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.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#62. He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts.
John Steinbeck
#63. Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson
#64. It's not often that you see a smile on the face of the Viper, but it actually looks good on there.
Jerry Lawler
#65. The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.
Alexandra Stoddard
#66. When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.
Winston S. Churchill
#67. I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.
Guy Pearce
#68. She had a job to do. She did not have time to feel pain; not often.
Ayn Rand
#69. The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.
Derek Sivers
#70. I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
Alexandre Dumas
#71. I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.
Charlie Kaufman
#72. When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.
Celine Dion
#73. great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,
Charles Dickens
#74. Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
Randall Jarrell
#75. It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
Mark Waid
#76. We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit ... Pray often to the Holy Spirit so that He may help us, give us the strength, give us the inspiration and lead us forward.
Pope Francis
#77. In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
Kate Christensen
#78. It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.
Glenn Greenwald
#79. Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#80. Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
William Penn
#81. Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
Daniel Boone
#82. Declined. I went inside to pay cash. This had happened before, but not often. There was something about that word that sucked the self-respect out of your soul. This time it sucked out all my hope as well.
James Anderson
#83. It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.
Roger Ebert
#84. Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.
Karen Karbo
#85. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply "Here!" to a body's cry of "Where?
Thomas Hardy
#86. Ah well." Gignomai turned slowly round. "It's not often commented on, but when you stop and think, mercy is the biggest injustice of them all.
K.J. Parker
#87. Dagny heard a cold, implacable voice saying somewhere within her: Remember it - remember it well - it is not often that one can see pure evil - look at it ...
Ayn Rand
#88. Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.
Wayne White
#89. Its not often a true friend comes around
E.B. White
#90. WINNIE: Sometimes I am wrong. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.) Sometimes all is over, for the day, all done, all said, all ready for the night, and the day not over, far from over, the night not ready, far, far from ready. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.)
Samuel Beckett
#91. Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
Suzanne Curchod
#92. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writers. Charlotte was both.
E.B. White
#93. Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence.
J.M. Barrie
#94. Our lives are stories built of small moments. Ordinary experiences. It is too easy to forget that our days are adding up to something astonishing. We do not often stop to notice the signs and wonders. The writing on the wall.
Christie Purifoy
#95. It's not often you get something for free in this life.
Tarryn Fisher
#96. Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.
Lord Chesterfield
#99. Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
James E. Faust
#100. Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most.
Anita Dunn
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