Often Quotes

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.