Often Like Quotes

31 Often Like quotes by 30 unique authors

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion
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
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. — Austin O'Malley
I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied,… — Gretel Ehrlich
I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up… — Stephanie Perkins
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each… — Susan Meiselas
People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that… — David Lynch
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be… — Alexander Pope
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost,… — Stephan Jenkins
The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise. — Timothy Keller
Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person. — Ezra Koenig
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that… — Robert Genn
Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we… — Peter Singer
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. — Virginia Woolf
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent… — Aldous Huxley
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But… — Amy Carmichael
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing. — Marc Bekoff
Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not… — Craig Ferguson
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as… — Terence McKenna

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