Often Quotes
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You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
