Quotes about often-is
often-is imagination
David Schwimmer Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.
often-is feelings friendly
C. S. Lewis When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.
often-is storm passing
Jane Yolen How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.
often-is ideas scientist
Dean Ornish Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
often-is rights important
Eleanor Roosevelt Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
often-is weight may
Claude C. Hopkins The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific
often-is president might
Alexander Hamilton But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.
often-is gossip rumor
Andre Norton Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.
often-is literature innocence
Anatole France Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
often-is views errors
Thomas Jefferson I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
often-is views public-opinion
Thomas Jefferson When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
often-is expression ideas
Remy de Gourmont Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.
often-is secret tails
Robert A. Heinlein He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
often-is remains items
Roy H. Williams The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.
often-is safety choices
Sting The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.
often-is giving may
Thomas Hardy Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.
often-is lakes may
Thomas Love Peacock Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
often-is may benefits
Plato When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
often-is sides vulnerable
Jenny Slate Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.
often-is actors film
Gaspard Ulliel When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.
often-is too-much eating
Catharine Beecher Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
often-is causes doe
Gregory Bateson Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
often-is joy pleasure
C. S. Lewis Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
often-is long perfect
H. P. Lovecraft The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
often-is mind lasts
Herman Melville Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
often-is facts vices
Francois de La Rochefoucauld What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
often-is unhappy satisfaction
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
often-is blood sheep
Friedrich Nietzsche I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
often-is want taste
Julia Child Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
often-is people age
Mark Twain I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.
often-is groups states
Margaret Thatcher Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.
often-is triumph defeat
B. C. Forbes Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.