Often Quotes

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

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

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.