Quotes of: Often Keyword

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Practical Magic

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

Pride and Prejudice

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

The Phantom Tollbooth

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together-and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

The Rent Collector

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

I’m like a praying mantis, except not so devout. And I make love like a monk in meditation, which can often be confused with being asleep.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If you’re wondering how I’ll ask you how you’re doing, the answer is silently and invisibly. My love is often overlooked, like a midget behind a counter.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Think a Second Time

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Unless

Often I Wish I Were a potato. Eyes opened in all directions. Unafraid of the cold earth. The difference between life and death for somebody.

Unknown

Women are not wrong if they react instinctively – often jealously – against their partner’s interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman’s destructive rival for her man’s sexual capabilities.

Vagina: A New Biography

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Venom

People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

Voice of Reason

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

Vor Forn Sidr

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

Voyager

A leader is often judged by how well he bears responsibility. As king, everything that happens in your kingdom - regardless of who commits the act -is your fault.

The Well of Ascension

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

When the Tripods Came

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond