Often Quotes

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.