Top 100 Quotes About Oftentimes
#1. And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.
Quentin Tarantino
#2. Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also help you appreciate what the actor is feeling, what the playwright wants you to feel. Any engineer can put a spot on someone.
Jules Fisher
#3. The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
John Owen
#4. Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.
Katie Couric
#5. Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.
Marco Rubio
#6. Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'
Antony Starr
#7. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
#9. Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
Victoria Osteen
#10. Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.'
Seth Rogen
#11. All suffering is not demonic or possess demonic influences. Oftentimes, Christ is simply allowing us to be strengthen for the next level of destiny.
Angela Monique Crudupt
#12. Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.
Stephen Ambrose
#13. Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#14. Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#15. I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
Edmund White
#16. The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.
Victoria Osteen
#17. Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.
Nick Kroll
#18. When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be given so much importance.
John Tsilimparis
#19. Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
George Sand
#20. Because oftentimes the quiet mind could see and hear things the busy mind could not.
Brenna Aubrey
#21. When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
Charles Stanley
#22. I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#23. There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#24. Most people ignore what's right before their eyes. They believe they see, but oftentimes only view what they want.
Kerri Maniscalco
#25. Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.
Gil Scott-Heron
#26. Looks and words may be, and oftentimes are, false witnesses.
Thomas Hoby
#27. I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: 'I could be out there making money right now.'
Shay Carl
#28. Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
Gayle Forman
#29. For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
Thomas More
#30. Oftentimes in life, we can only determine our actions; not the outcome.
David P. Ingerson
#31. If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. It
sawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.
Debra Cowan
#32. Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#33. I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
Patrick Rothfuss
#34. My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.
Neil Cavuto
#35. Oftentimes the answers that you seek are not the ones you are expecting to receive.
Laura Lam
#36. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 135 The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 136 Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's 137 In deepest consequence. - 138
William Shakespeare
#37. The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.
Sophocles
#38. Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.
Will Ferrell
#39. I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.
Richard Paul Evans
#40. With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it.
Chris Pine
#41. I also talk about building a wall and oftentimes I'll say, and there's going to be a big beautiful door in that wall and people are going to come into our country because we want people to come in. We want people to come into our country, but we want them to come in legally.
Donald Trump
#42. I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
Nellie McKay
#43. In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into ...
Daniel Defoe
#44. Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
Susanne Bier
#45. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.
George Clooney
#46. Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
Zana Briski
#47. As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.
Dave Morin
#48. Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!
David Jeremiah
#49. I know now that the universe hears everything you ask of it. And oftentimes what you will is what you manifest. But it only takes requests in the order they are received, and it doesn't always give you what you want, though you do get a version of exactly what you ask for.
Mark "Fightshark" Miller
#50. She who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves;
Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
Which not ennobles but degrades her state.
Joanna Baillie
#51. Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come to feel that more and more. The more movies I've done and the older I've - the more experience I have, I always knew it was a director's medium, and I always said that.
Matt Damon
#53. Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.
Richard Paul Evans
#54. Genghis Khan considered his daughters superior leaders compared to his sons, and he awarded them kingdoms that they defended tooth and nail (oftentimes against their male siblings).
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
#55. Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#56. Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is ... Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.
Sanjo Jendayi
#57. Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
Kahlil Gibran
#58. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
Dan Brown
#59. Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
Daniel Defoe
#60. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
Criss Jami
#61. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.
Jane Austen
#62. The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
Jesse Eisenberg
#63. I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.
Susan Butcher
#64. In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
John Frusciante
#65. The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.
Edward T. Welch
#66. The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.
Pedro Meyer
#67. Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.
Billy Bob Thornton
#68. God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?
Saint John Chrysostom
#69. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
Charles Stanley
#70. I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.
Lee Daniels
#71. Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#72. So remarkably deaf was my grandfather Squeers That he had to wear lightning-rods over his ears To even hear thunder, and oftentimes then He was forced to request it to thunder again.
Bill Nye
#73. We are apt to call things by wrong Names. We will have Prosperity to be Happiness, and Adversity to be Misery; though that is the School of Wisdom, and oftentimes the way to Eternal Happiness.
Various
#74. I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.
Nick Kroll
#75. Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount.
C. JoyBell C.
#76. A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare
#78. Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith.
Karen Kingsbury
#79. Oftentimes, when people cut a record from analog tape to vinyl, they digitize the music first; I did a little investigating and discovered that most vinyl records that I've ever heard were digitized before they were put onto vinyl.
Kevin Shields
#80. Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
Brit Morin
#81. Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'
Brett Dalton
#82. But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
Vince Gill
#83. I'm oftentimes called away from my family ... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
Benjamin Bratt
#84. She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.
Anthony Kiedis
#85. Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'
George W. Bush
#86. I think Seattle has a great sort of luxury and comfort sensibility, which I oftentimes think is lost in fashion for fashion's sake.
Chris Benz
#87. Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
Phil Klay
#88. Oftentimes, your choices are down to two less than ideal outcomes, but you have to choose which one is the best one for the country. I personally believe he continues to struggle to articulate that.
Marco Rubio
#89. What oftentimes draws the good church girl to the bad boy is the bad in the good church girl, which the Bible calls the flesh.
Daniel Whyte III
#90. Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
Taraji P. Henson
#91. I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring stuff in, and it's oftentimes the stuff that I've gotten rid of that's the stuff that everyone else is like, "yeah!!!!"
John Dieterich
#92. We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong.
Julie Anne Long
#93. [During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... ] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
Seneca The Younger
#94. Oftentimes, the whole reason we became programmers in the first place is because we wanted to move beyond being a mere player and change the game, control it, modify its parameters, maybe even create our own games.
Jeff Atwood
#95. I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.
Joe Carnahan
#96. I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
Norman Borlaug
#97. Oftentimes we will get to the rink when the sun comes up and leave when the sun is setting, so on a weekend, I really like to spend at least one day outside and not be stuck indoors all day.
Meryl Davis
#98. Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right - and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.
Jenni Schaefer
#99. Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.
Goldie Hawn
#100. Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.
Michael Trucco
