Often Quotes
12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors
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For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans…
— John F. Kennedy
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Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
— Clement Mok
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Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.
— Mae West
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to…
— William Blum
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Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
— Kofi Annan
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No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because i…
— Shahrukh Khan
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A single word often betrays a great design.
— Jean Racine
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On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
— Scott Turow
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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or…
— Herbert
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
— David Halberstam
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Topcats often begin as underdogs.
— Bernard Meltzer
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The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share…
— Unknown Author
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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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Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
— James Gibbons
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With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the…
— Albert Einstein
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on,…
— Albert Einstein
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How…
— Eugen Herrigel
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
— William H. Gass
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Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
— Unknown Author
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I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on my stomach. I…
— William H. Gass
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
— Virginia Woolf
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