Often Quotes

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.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.