How Often Quotes
287 quotes by 257 authors
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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
— Joe Biden
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
— Jim Bouton
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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
— Robert Fulghum
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How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth…
— Janet McKenzie Hill
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably…
— William Rothenstein
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If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for…
— Jack Kornfield
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
— Ernst Mayr
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
— Edward R. Murrow
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom…
— George Gissing
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How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on…
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and…
— Alexander Pope
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Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal…
— Piero Ferrucci
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
— George Orwell
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You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness…
— Alexander Kotov
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