Often Quotes

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.