Often Quotes

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.

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.