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Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes. — Tom Cochrane

Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do? — C.S. Lewis

Self-awareness of one's faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud. — Bauvard

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.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — Etgar Keret

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

Necessity is very often the mother of romance. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often. — Michael Trucco

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes. — Francis Lieber

God often gave us the very things from which to recover that we would be the most horrified to have. — Christina Sell

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. — Anthony Bourdain

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. — Jim Harrison

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony. — Ben Folds

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

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. — Elizabeth Bibesco

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome. — Nancy Astor

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life. — Anuj

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often. — Brian Wilson

with local administration. These ladies are often very attractive, and are not seldom introduced at Court and enjoy high favor." "And successes depend — Murasaki Shikibu

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. — John McCain

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton

Young men are supposed to think themselves immortal, but the subject is not very often out of my mind for a long time together. — C.S. Lewis

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible. — Ezra Taft Benson

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown. — Rose Byrne

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. — Tammy Bruce

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. — Jonathan Miller

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both. — Christopher Hitchens

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. — Boris Pasternak

The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed. — C.S. Lewis

People often make very bad mistakes because people often don't ask very simple crucial questions before their actions! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. — Michael Tilson Thomas

Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall. — Terry Pratchett

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much. — Jean De La Bruyere

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers. — Frederick Lenz

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. — Criss Jami

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious. — Sam Altman

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. — Brian May

Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers. — Chris Pirillo

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance. — Edward O. Wilson

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life. — Holland Taylor

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. — Winston Churchill

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape. — Tamsin Greig

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul — Robert Henri

My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often. — Jane Seymour

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me. — Frederick Buechner

...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of 'goin' doololly. — E.J. Stevens

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway

For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions. — Najib Razak

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway. — Jose Gonzalez

The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry. — Truman Capote

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious. — Emmy Swain

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call. — Jyoti Arora

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors. — Lucas Papademos

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves. — Samuel Johnson

The neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic. — Dion Fortune

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself. — Alexia Fast

Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful. — Lemony Snicket

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

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you. — Jose Carreras

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often. — Saku Koivu

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

We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses. — Mark Williams

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. — Iyanla Vanzant

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

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

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability. — Ben Marcus

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful. — Ingmar Bergman

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated. — Audrey Niffenegger

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often. — Morrissey

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

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids. — Robert Ressler

People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart. — Robin Trower

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. — Jonathan Carroll

The people who get what they're after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough. — Austin Kleon

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

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline. — Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. — Richelle Mead

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust. — Ruth J. Simmons

As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. — William Baziotes

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — David Lloyd-Jones

Very often the music comes first. — Neil Diamond

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it. — Jackson Browne

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. — Boris Gelfand

The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different.
Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate. — Martha Beck

We take thousands of decisions in life; the very best ones are often the ones taken boldly and unhesitatingly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should. — Jane Austen

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

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry. — Roberto Cavalli