Quotes of: Often Keyword

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

... an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

Swann's Way

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Travel as a Political Act

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

Twenty Years After

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

Tarzan of the Apes

The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.

Take Me to the Castle

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

The Other Language

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

She...ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter....

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...

Profane Friendship

Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. 

A Pale View of Hills

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

The Pieces We Keep

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!

Politics

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.

Peeling the Onion

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life