Often Quotes

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President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second. — John F. Kerry
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down… — Wallace Stegner
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that… — Wendell Berry
We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when… — Terry Tempest Williams
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the… — Terry Tempest Williams
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president. Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice,… — George W. Bush
Drama often obscures the real issues — Jenny Holzer
What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. — Wole Soyinka
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more… — J M Coetzee
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and… — David Emerald Womeldorff
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them.… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to… — Douglas Adams
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be… — Queen Victoria
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. — George Eliot
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing… — Stendhal
Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress… — Marilu Henner
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of… — Walter Bagehot
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another. — Pasquier Quesnel

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