Often Used Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to… — Jane Austen
• Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one… — John Berger
• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. — Marquis de Custine
• Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be… — John Tukey
• Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities.… — John L'Heureux
• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin
• I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take]… — George Soros
• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if… — Alec Guinness
• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the… — Tim Ferriss
• Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
• The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used… — Robert Foster Bennett
• The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
• The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures. — William Kristol
• They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for… — John Marsden
• A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public… — Victor Wooten
• Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as… — Simon Mainwaring
• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of… — Marquis de Custine
• Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture. — Dario Fo
• Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert… — Eugen Kogon

Who Wrote These Often Used Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 50 Often Used Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Often Used Quotes by Jane Austen
• 2 Often Used Quotes by Marquis de Custine
• 1 Often Used Quote by Alec Guinness
• 1 Often Used Quote by Robert Reich
• 1 Often Used Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Often Used Quote by Antony Beevor
• 1 Often Used Quote by Tim Ferriss
• 1 Often Used Quote by Tivea
• 1 Often Used Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer
• 1 Often Used Quote by Greg Behrendt
• 1 Often Used Quote by Robert Foster Bennett
• 1 Often Used Quote by Paige Kadau
• 1 Often Used Quote by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• 1 Often Used Quote by Pacifiersucker
• 1 Often Used Quote by William Kristol
• 1 Often Used Quote by Sarah Fielding
• 1 Often Used Quote by John Marsden
• 1 Often Used Quote by Victor Wooten
• 1 Often Used Quote by Simon Mainwaring
• 1 Often Used Quote by Dario Fo
• 1 Often Used Quote by Eugen Kogon
• 1 Often Used Quote by Lauren Greenfield
• 1 Often Used Quote by Joshua Reynolds
• 1 Often Used Quote by Robert Tisserand
• 1 Often Used Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte