Top 100 Quotes About Often
#1. Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another - sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself - while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.
Isaac Asimov
#2. Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.
Joan D. Chittister
#4. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.
Cynthia Kadohata
#5. Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. The success of very important matters often depends on doing or not doing something that seems trivial. Even in little things, therefore, you must be cautious and thoughtful. Francesco Guicciardini
Bohdi Sanders
#7. It had never mattered to her very much, reputation. For one who was often described as odd and strange, having little in common with others her age or gender, reputation never seemed worth much. It did not buy her friends, or invitations, or respect. So
Sarah MacLean
#8. It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them ... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
Seamus Heaney
#10. One of the main reasons we're so affected by our negative thoughts is that we think our mind has an accurate grasp on reality, and that its conclusions are generally valid. This, however, is a fallacy. Our mind's view of reality can be, and often is, completely distorted.
Olivia Fox Cabane
#11. I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
Laura Dekker
#12. I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.
Demetri Martin
#13. She often told her children that they couldn't change the past and they couldn't jump forward to the future. All they had was today, and they needed to live it in such a way that they wouldn't create just another regretted yesterday. Mourning the past was never productive-she knew this full well.
Tracie Peterson
#14. Introverts often prefer writing to speaking, because writing uses a different neurological pathway in the brain than speaking does.
Adam S. McHugh
#15. I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.
Nicola Sturgeon
#16. Cheating is often more efficient.
Jeri Ryan
#17. History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Thurgood Marshall
#18. My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.
Noam Chomsky
#19. My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
Joyce Carol Oates
#21. What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#22. Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
George Murray
#23. He doesn't hate you, Thomas, he admires you. And we're often frightened and jealous of what we admire.
Tom Piccirilli
#24. I often use cake mixes as my basic ingredients, then exploit them to produce more exciting products.
N.T. Alcuaz
#25. As a young man, I used to sport a rather ragged beard [ ... ]; it doesn't suit and in its untended state I can often come to look like a set of sensory organs lost in a raspberry bush.
Claire North
#26. Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.
Robert Galbraith
#27. In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.
Madeleine K. Albright
#28. Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
Elliott Carter
#29. We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
Bill McKibben
#30. It is bad for a man to be obeyed too often.
Robert Shea
#31. Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.
Starhawk
#32. We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
John Irving
#33. The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery ... they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.
George Kohlrieser
#34. Often when you're filming comedy and you've done six or seven takes, the joke's been done and you know you're gonna have to say it again in another set up. I think it's good not to be indulged too much.
Jim Howick
#35. Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.
Hugh Lofting
#36. That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
Roman Coppola
#37. The problem with a person who has knee-jerk reactions is that it often makes him look like a jerk, and makes others want to react by giving him the knee.
Torry Martin
#38. Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
Warren G. Bennis
#39. Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
#40. The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.
Tom Stoppard
#41. In the process of being a lady from a girl ... I understood that the White Knight, the Prince Charming and the Bad Guy are kind of same. You cant distinguish them by how they look or behave and often the Bad Guy has the better dressing sense.
Upasana Banerjee
#42. When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.
Mary Crocker Cook
#43. Does this God of yours speak with you often?" "No. But he makes his will known. His Holy Spirit moves among us. I'm practicing listening and hearing and obeying.
Janette Oke
#44. Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Barry Ritholtz
#45. I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.
Mike Colter
#46. I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
Philip Yancey
#48. The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
Dominique De Villepin
#49. Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically ... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.
Judith Martin
#50. Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.
Bob Newhart
#51. Has no prospects of being either, then you don't just need a remote position - you need a new job. Only the office can be secure Companies often go to great lengths to make employees
Jason Fried
#52. A mouse when caught in a perilous situation reacts aptly because it has such encounters on a daily basis whereas a lion, which is rarely caught in such situations, is often late in its reaction.
Ashish Jaiswal
#53. There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
John Steinbeck
#54. I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.
Michael Light
#55. The ways of the Lord," I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant."
"Adler?"
"Theodor Reik, I think.
Robert B. Parker
#56. The burn unit is often the most distant wing of a hospital, because burn victims are so susceptible to infection that they must be kept away from other patients. More important, perhaps, is that the placement minimizes the chance of visitors stumbling across a Kentucky Fried Human.
Andrew Davidson
#57. Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#58. People often ask for my advice and counseling, but overall, the best advice I can give to anyone at any time is: never complete a negative statement.
Bear Heart
#59. Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
Michael Moore
#60. What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.
Shayne Ward
#62. That which does not kill us, very often kills someone else.
Vicky Loebel
#63. Animals understand your love and instinct without any words. Often times, humans understand neither you nor your love.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Too often, it occurs to him that he's lived just long enough to have completely outlived the world that made sense to him, the world where he fit. He
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#65. Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.
Steve McQueen
#66. Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.
Thomas Van Nortwick
#67. If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.
James Elkins
#68. Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Joyce Carol Oates
#69. People often ask why I write romance. It's because I believe in heroes and heroines who, after fighting their way through often-formidable obstacles, are rewarded with a happy ending. When the story's over, their future is just beginning and I really like that idea.
Debra Cowan
#70. It's the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa." Fred
James S.A. Corey
#71. It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
Austin Phelps
#72. I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
Malala Yousafzai
#73. I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
Christopher Nolan
#74. My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.
Jools Holland
#75. I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.
Johnny Weir
#76. Shame is deeply rooted in identity. And the "self-ideal" we create for ourselves can often incorporate a lot of expectations that simply aren't included in God's ideal for us.
Matt Chandler
#77. Hard work often produces better results than talent.
Lisa Kleypas
#78. She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.
Myla Goldberg
#79. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings ~ Lao Tzu.
Tammara Webber
#80. Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
Darell Hammond
#81. One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.
Herman Cain
#82. Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#83. The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#84. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
Piero Scaruffi
#85. Dirty talk is an art. Do it too often, it becomes routine. Never do it, and you're missing something. Simon did it just right. He was like a perfect bowl of smutty porridge: just right.
Alice Clayton
#86. You cannot avoid sin or mistake anyway (Romans 5:12), but if you try too fervently, it often creates even worse problems.
Richard Rohr
#87. Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. Trade-offs require clear choices, yet in a world of powerful forces, it is often easier to compromise than to make difficult choices. By
Bharat Anand
#89. Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
Mason Cooley
#90. Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused?
Lucretius
#91. Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator - an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work.
Rodney Stark
#92. The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has been wrought by what should be a thing of beauty - religious passion?
Steve Goodier
#93. Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.
Kenneth Keating
#94. It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Thomas A Kempis
#95. I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Jonathan Swift
#96. We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].
Norman Doidge
#97. When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
Terrence Malick
#98. Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.
Richard Rohr
#99. Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
Charles De Lint
#100. Thus it should appear to everyone that the best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come.
Geoffroi De Charny
