Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place,… — Peggy Noonan
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion… — Lewis H. Lapham
The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching… — Raymond Moody
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. — George Eliot
I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between… — Donald Trump
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance. — Henry Ward Beecher
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have… — Elwyn Brooks White
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from… — Simone de Beauvoir
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up. — Richard M. Nixon
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that… — Lord Byron
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,… — John Ruskin
I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid… — Helen Keller
I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished… — Unknown Author
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion… — Albert Einstein
One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk… — Gerald Haslam
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things… — Brian Froud
How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage? — Anthony Marra
I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which… — Boris Gelfand
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers — J.P. Moreland
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Unknown Author
You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them — Unknown Author
I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into… — Liu Xia
I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution. — John Corey Whaley

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