Often Quotes

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.

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

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.