#oft

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#being #display #need #often #people

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #cannot #especially #nature #observe

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#deny #draw #drawing #experience #good

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#acquaintance #back #done #effort #embarrassment

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#important #man #more #often #prophecies

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #fifty #lived #long #often

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#confused #each #i #i tried #meant

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it. ↗

— John Linder

#constituents #going #grassroots #i #listen

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. ↗

— Howard Lindsay

#human #human nature #laws #nature #often

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#broadcasters #dangerous #fantastic #i #obviously