Often Quotes

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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.