Often Quotes

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I don't very often read novels.

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.