Often Quotes
12289 quotes by 6499 authors
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls…
— Aristophanes
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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
— Paul Auster
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The simplest things are often the truest.
— Richard Bach
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse…
— Karen Armstrong
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas…
— Karen Armstrong
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
— Karen Armstrong
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these…
— J. J. Abrams
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can…
— Karen Armstrong
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
— Arthur Ashe
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
— Julian Assange
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty…
— David Attenborough
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us.…
— Margaret Atwood
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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