Frequently Quotes

• Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Fall
  • Pride
  • Cup

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Hell

• I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • Myself
  • Again
  • Poems

• For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • American
  • Administration
  • Theories

• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Exercise
  • Judgment
  • Occasionally

• Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Patriotic

• Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Wisdom
  • Management
  • Behavior

• I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all the sunshine. I could totally live in L.A.

  

  Monika Chiang
  • Mood
  • Sunshine
  • Totally

• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Questions
  • Frequently
  • Discourses

• In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

  

  David Markson
  • Interest
  • Profound
  • Subjects

• I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Often
  • Quote
  • Frequently

• When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Better
  • Natural
  • Happens

• I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Funny
  • Company
  • Writers