Often Quotes

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.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.