Often Quotes

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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 their imaginations.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

I think people can believe in anything.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

I often reread books I have written.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Vote early and vote often.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.