Often Is Quotes - Page 5

• Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

  George Gissing

  Acceptance, Compassion, Self

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  People, Age, Lapses

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

  Norman Douglas

  Communication, Left, Unspoken

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• As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Winning, Light

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• Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

  B. C. Forbes

  Motivational, Triumph, Defeat

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• I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

  Ralph Connor

  Coward, Shame

  Ralph Connor (1900). “Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks”, New York ; Toronto : F.H. Revell Company

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• I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. You’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Revenge, Heart

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• For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

  Alan Watts

  Moving, Unique, Tree

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Courage, People, Brave

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Giving, Demand

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• 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

  Secret, Tails, Way

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• It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mother, Imagination, Mere

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Opportunity, Men, Enemy

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• More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Dancing, Listening

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.86, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

  Andre Norton

  Gossip, Rumor, Reports

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.273, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Jealousy, People, Behavior

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

  Henry George

  Giving, Doe, States

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• I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Attitude, Artist, Odds

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• Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wise, Fashion, Vanity

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• Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, Cooking, Too Much

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?

  Michel Martin

  Uplifting, Sports, Teamwork

  "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

  Lisa Unger

  Damage Is Done, Violence, Kind

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• 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.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Expression, Ideas, Mind

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• We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Music, Art, Mean

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

  Aaron Burr

  Errors, Indecision

  Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837). “Memoirs of Aaron Burr”, p.337

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