Often Quotes

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

Zealots often carry the day.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.