Often Quotes

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

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

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.