Often Quotes

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

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

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.