Often Quotes

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.