Often Quotes

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.