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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow. — Chuck Close

Another flawless lie. I may not do it often but I shine at it like I do most things. — Karen Marie Moning

It's important to realize that, often, the person we can turn to regarding one issue is not the best person to talk to about other issues. — Brene Brown

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. — William Ewart Napier

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. — Sylvia Day

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change. — Sharon Weil

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all. — Sharon Salzberg

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. — Thomas Naylor

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men. — Edmund Hillary

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love. — Debasish Mridha

Some people just carry heavy hearts and more often than not it has nothing to do with you. — Nikki Rowe

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools. — P.C. Cast

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life. — Hannah Simone

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong. — Luc De Clapiers

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two. — James Gray

Life is difficult more often that it is not. To live means to face difficulties. It's what you learn from those difficulties that matters. — Sigmund Brouwer

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! — Jane Austen

We often discover only many years later whether life and the stars were smiling upon us or not. Life can take the most surprising turns. What — Jan-Philipp Sendker

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option. — Lucas Papademos

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. — Seneca The Younger

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. — Jeff VanderMeer

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often. — Catherine Deneuve

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves. — Edward Heath

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. — Bono

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it. — Brian Herbert

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. — Marcel Proust

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount. — Diane Duane

Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management. — Raghuram G. Rajan

Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances. — Richelle E. Goodrich

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true — Leonard Nimoy

Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met. — William, Saroyan

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, 'Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last '. - Jane Austen — Alexandra Potter

FitLife.tv's problem wasn't a traffic or conversion problem. It rarely is. More often than not, it's a FUNNEL problem. — Russell Brunson

A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste. — Anuj

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it. — Tim Bishop

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true
big things are often just small things that are noticed. — Markus Zusak

Everyone is familiar with the phrase 'It's not what you know, it's who you know' and that's because it's so often true. You — Enterprise Nation

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent. — Aron Nimzowitsch

Living is more often than not, existing.
I want to be alive, with love, joy, and be exciting. — Debasish Mridha

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life? — Phyllis Bottome

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it. — Ouida

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out. — James Joyce

Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often. — Alexander Elder

Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity. — Debasish Mridha

Historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I — Thomas King

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray. — Jonathan Jackson

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me. — Maureen O'Sullivan

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince. — Dane Cook

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. — A. C. Benson

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King

Tequila often gave people the desire to tackle the impossible. It did not, however, make impossible possible — Darynda Jones

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims. — Charles Dickens

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often. — Maria Sharapova

Change is not a four letter word ... but often your reaction to it is! — Jeffrey Gitomer

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. — Robert A. Heinlein

All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. — Robin Sharma

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. — John Oliver

Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we'll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect. — Charles F. Glassman

For love, people consider the unthinkable . . . and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power." The — Renee Ahdieh

I often think it would be such luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. Others would have to worry for me, about me. — Charlotte Bronte

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow

Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible. — Matthew A. Petti

How often do I have to tell you this," I say. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm. Not. Going. Anywhere. — Rock Lane Cooper

Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security. — Jean-Marie Guehenno

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now. — Joe Abercrombie

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Break often - not like porcelain, but like waves. — Scherezade Siobhan

I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists]. — John Lennox

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often. — Laura Palmer

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy. — Charles Darwin

There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you're having and the one you're not. — Robin Black

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all. — Christie Golden

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often. — Aaron Tveit

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are. — Steve Carell

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts. — Henry Heimlich

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix — Amy Poehler

Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things. — Philip Larkin

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing. — Bob Mayer

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not. — Ellen Hopkins

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all. — Sarah Dessen

Solomon warned us not to rush into God's presence with words. That's what fools do. And often, that's what we do. — Francis Chan

The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable. — Lemony Snicket

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. — Madeleine L'Engle