Often Quotes

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.