Often Quotes

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

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

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.