Often Quotes

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

I often reread books I have written.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.