All Quotes

Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
‐‐ Ines de La Fressange

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
‐‐ Tom Bissell

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.
‐‐ David Millar

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
‐‐ Maxwell Maltz

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
‐‐ Eleanor Clift

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
‐‐ Jess Walter

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
‐‐ Lydia Davis

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
‐‐ Charles de Lint

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
‐‐ Frederic Bastiat

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
‐‐ Stefan Zweig

Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
‐‐ Maureen Chiquet

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
‐‐ Paracelsus

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
‐‐ Vittorio Alfieri

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
‐‐ George Muller

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.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.
‐‐ Ruud Gullit

Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.
‐‐ Phil Collins

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
‐‐ Fredric Jameson

Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.
‐‐ Marketa Irglova

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.
‐‐ Asghar Farhadi

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.
‐‐ Andre Braugher

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
‐‐ John Ensign

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
‐‐ Peter Agre

Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.
‐‐ Nick Vujicic

Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
‐‐ Dustin Clare

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
‐‐ Max Aitken

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
‐‐ Pratibha Patil

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody.
‐‐ Claude Rains

Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
‐‐ Leon Uris