Often Quotes

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

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

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.