Often Quotes

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.