Often Quotes

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.

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.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

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.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.