Often Is Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the benefit. It's a stupid way to do politics. Economic issues can more often be addressed concretely, and it would seem logical for people to vote their interests in this area.

  Timothy Noah

  Stupid, Issues, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

  Marc Marcel

  Bravery, Stupidity, Mistaken

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• We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

  Julie Bishop

  Disease, Facts, Steps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Safety, Choices, Way

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• To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

  Marc Edwards

  War, Humanity, Commerce

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• Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

  Charles Buxton

  Pain, Failure, Mean

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• The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Truth, Names, Ignorant

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.433, Pan Macmillan

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