Quotes about oft
often-is joy pleasure
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is C. S. Lewis
often-is feelings friendly
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 ideas scientist
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. Dean Ornish
often-is rights important
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. Eleanor Roosevelt
often-is president might
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. Alexander Hamilton
often-is humanity fundamentals
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated. Abraham Maslow
often-is oratory delight
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
often-is weight may
The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific Claude C. Hopkins
often-is literature innocence
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. Anatole France
often-is gossip rumor
Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports. Andre Norton
often-is storm passing
How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. Jane Yolen
often-is triumph defeat
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. B. C. Forbes
often-is discipline may
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline. Edward Gibbon
often-is imagination
Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something. David Schwimmer
often-can silence waiting
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity. Aiden Wilson Tozer
oftentimes
In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
often-is causes doe
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. Gregory Bateson
often-is giving doe
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. Henry George
often-is may benefits
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Plato
oft though
All is best, though we oft doubt, / What the unsearchable dispose. John Milton
often-is remains items
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged. Roy H. Williams
often-is safety choices
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. Sting
often-is secret tails
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. Robert A. Heinlein
often-is coward shame
I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. Ralph Connor
often-is giving may
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. Thomas Hardy
often-is lakes may
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. Thomas Love Peacock
often-is mind lasts
Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous. Herman Melville
often-is sides vulnerable
Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side. Jenny Slate
often-is actors film
When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors. Gaspard Ulliel
often-is too-much eating
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. Catharine Beecher
oftentimes rapid seen three winter year
It's been a winter when we've oftentimes seen some pretty rapid fluctuations, You can't make anything more than that out of one year's variability. One year just can't do it. You'd want to see it frequently, two out of three years.
often-is long perfect
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. H. P. Lovecraft
often-is blood sheep
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. Friedrich Nietzsche