Often Quotes

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.