Often Quotes

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

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.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.