Often Quotes
12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors
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As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a…
— Laurie Helgoe
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But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each…
— Joseph Addison
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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead…
— Richard M. Nixon
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That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
— James Madison
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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of…
— Randy Pausch
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct…
— Herman Van Rompuy
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In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight
— Hugh Massingberd
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Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock…
— Carl Sandburg
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What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
— John Donne
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If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want…
— Kris Kristofferson
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful…
— Joseph Conrad
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind…
— Walter Bagehot
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One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
— Allen Wheelis
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Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they…
— Richard Hamming
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The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally…
— Richard Asher
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It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
— John Brown
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something,…
— Paul Simon
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