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Yes, I have often battled Grief. / Both of us used our teeth. — Sherman Alexie

But there's often more truth found when we sleep than when we wake. Dad used to always say that. — Victoria Scott

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes. — Fran Lebowitz

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls. — Heather Bixler

The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way. — Kenneth Eade

Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. — Rebecca Skloot

Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything. — Albert Camus

Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. — Saurabh Sharma

She was going to have to train herself not to stare at him quite as often as she was used to. That would be no easy task. — Marissa Meyer

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. — J.R.R. Tolkien

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure. — Jim Corbett

Amelia and I were at the age where wonderful things sometimes still did happen, but far less often than they used to. — Tiffany Baker

One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week. — Gina Bellman

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them. — M.F. Moonzajer

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture. — Dario Fo

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. — Marquis De Custine

The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex. — Ilya Ehrenburg

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue. — Pablo Picasso

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old. — Will Smith

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. — Martin Scorsese

The 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers. — Mary Ritter Beard

Combray, we used often to invite him to our house. — Marcel Proust

Our souls are old,
often used before.
The knife outlasts
the hand that holds it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust. — Jeanine Basinger

Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal. — Jim Wallis

I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could. — Chris Squire

I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up. — Antony Starr

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. — Bill Bailey

He says, " 'Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often. — Jennifer Niven

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image. — Robert Barry

I think "majority" is one of my least favorite words. It's so often used to justify bad decisions. — Emma Newman

And a rather controversial one for birth control that had nevertheless quickly become the most often used rune in the lexicon. — Cassandra Clare

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance. — James Cook

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking. — Edward John Carnell

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash. — Kevin Kwan

So many things are difficult, said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often. — Agatha Christie

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name. — Betty Eadie

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends. — Walter E. Williams

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. — William J. Mann

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator. — Eula Biss

I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't. — Ann Leckie

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Granted, anger can be misplaced and is often destructive, but anger generates passion, and that energy, if used correctly, can be highly constructive. — David W. Earle

Least said,soonest mended, Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used. — Jean Little

Designers used to be kept behind veiled doors. Now they are often the faces of companies. — Charles Pelly

The most expensive card you'll hold in your pocket is trust, if used irresponsibly, the charges become costly and the debt is often unforgivable — Silent Dugood

Guard your heart, so it doesn't get broken like mine, my mother used to say as often as twice a week. — Tarryn Fisher

'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly. — Julian Ovenden

The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night. — Jan Chipchase

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. — Douglas Adams

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Machinery often responds favourably when it senses a penis-equipped human in the vicinity, Jo used to claim, but not this time. — Stephen King

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work. — Colleen McCullough

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go. — Robert Osborne

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it. — Atul Gawande

She's been used more often than a jailhouse condom. — Michael Robotham

Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used. — Nick Cutter

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures. — William Kristol

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. — Donald Norman

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible. — Jamie Dornan

Beware of finding what you're looking for.
[A favorite aphorism he often used.] — Richard Hamming

My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to. — Margaret Cho

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often. — Donald Rumsfeld