Often Quotes

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.