Often Quotes
12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors
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Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m…
— Rachel Held Evans
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present…
— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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Why is fear part of earth life? Perhaps our Heavenly Father’s greatest hope is that through our fears we may choose to turn to Him.…
— Virginia H. Pearce
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The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty…
— Rivka Galchen
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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,…
— Unknown Author
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Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.
— Arun Jaitley
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You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.
— Hillman Curtis
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Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
— Sumantra Ghoshal
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Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray)…
— Tex Schramm
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When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters…
— Reyner Banham
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There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get…
— Brian Evenson
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God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings,…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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Life often feels like a great pile of obligations, frustrations, and disappointments. But the Lord is there, always the same, His arms still outstretched. When…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you…
— Susanna Kearsley
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Jung Min is extra friendly. Not meaning that his face/appearance is extra friendly, but his personality is very friendly and mature. At home, he often…
— Kim Hyung-jun
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People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re…
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you…
— Donald Trump, Jr.
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
— Bob Geldof
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I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner.…
— Diane Cilento
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Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness,…
— Raymond Burr
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot…
— Luis Marden
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There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive…
— Arlene Dickinson
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Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.
— Graham Hancock
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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach.…
— Arne Jacobsen
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I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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