#often

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#capable #credit #draw #extent #full

I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#anything #come #else #get #had

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. ↗

— Andre Gide

#decisive #life #most #often

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. ↗

— Andre Gide

#did #i #important #important things #me

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. ↗

— William Hague

#been #came #children #down #filling

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#lend-lease #often #russians #took

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#book #going #happen #i #just

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else. ↗

— Ed Harris

#betray #else #often #somebody #too