Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times,… — Ray Bradbury
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… — Sigmund Freud
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen
Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and… — Uta Hagen
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I… — Laura Marling
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want… — Jeff Miller
We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children… — Lynn Johnston
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by… — Ida B. Wells
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out… — Margaret Sanger
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next… — Amy Winehouse
Often, others see you, as you see yourself — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express… — Abraham Maslow
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. — Albert Bandura
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing… — William James
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what… — William James
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes… — William James
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,… — William James
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common… — Herbert Marcuse
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. — Jacques Derrida
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but… — Aristophanes
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to… — Thucydides
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. — Horace
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch

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