Often Quotes

Often I feel I say too much.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.