Top 575 Often Quotes

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Oil your hair and take a head massage as often as possible for better blood circulation.

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.

I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That’s happened a lot. Or they’re often purely victims.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

People think of politicians having true power, but that’s less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I feel that, as a person of color, I’ve always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

I try as much as possible to take a moment every so often, pause, and enjoy the journey.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

People should say ‘no comment’ more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let’s have more no comment.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‘oh my god, its all going down the tubes’, like the blues often is.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

People often ask how my hair has that supreme fullness even at midnight. Here’s a trick that one of our Fox News stylists taught me: Backcomb your hair just at the crown for height, and then put a large velcro roller there and wear it for as long as you can. I keep rollers in until showtime.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

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.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you’ve got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

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

I often get asked if I think I’m ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

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 our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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.

Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

People have often asked if I’m gay because I don’t go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.