Often Quotes

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

I often reread books I have written.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.