Often Is Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Long, Perfect, May

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1651, eBookIt.com

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• A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

  Anthony Trollope

  Clever, Men, Giving

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1776, e-artnow

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• As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Blow, Hands

  "An Autobiography" by Anthony Trollope, (Ch. 11), 1883.

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• The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Guiding Principles, Giving

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Evangeline Lilly Talks Ambiguity, Script Changes, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Views, Justice, Important

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• Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Jobs, Dirty, Men

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 3, (p. 36), 1969.

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• How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Childhood, Soul

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• I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.

  Eliza Leslie

  Writing, Artist, Practice

  Eliza Leslie (2011). “Selections from Eliza Leslie”, p.274, U of Nebraska Press

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• Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Exercise, Names, Magic

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• I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.

  Brian Evenson

  Reading, Thinking, Stories

  "5x5: Brian Evenson". jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Villains can often be one note and I would say in that case, it’s not fun to play the villain. It’s fun to play the villain if he a) has dimension and b) the villain gets to do all the things in the movie that in life he would get punished for. In the movie, you’re applauded for them if you do them with panache. And so that’s why it’s more fun to play the villain.

  James Franco

  Fun, Play, Dimensions

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.

  Margery Wilson

  Challenges, Progress, Accounts

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• Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.

  Marcia Falk

  Pain, Judging, Judgment

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• I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.

  Mario Monti

  Party, Contamination, Knows

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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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• Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Angel, Men

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