Quotes 421 till 440 of 863.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
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