Often Quotes
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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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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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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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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You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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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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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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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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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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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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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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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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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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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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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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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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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
