Often Quotes

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.