Often Quotes

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.