Often Quotes

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Money often costs too much.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.