Often Quotes

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.