Often Quotes

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.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.