Often Quotes

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.