Often Quotes

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

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

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.