#often

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ↗

— Demosthenes

#beginning #enterprises #often #opportunities #small

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#because #blinds #burn #fact #interesting

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#been #blessed #buddha #equally #i

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#concerns #everything #fears #him #often

In a way, the characters often do take over. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#often #over #take #way

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#circumstances #instead #letting #meant #often

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#am #begin #completely #decide #happens

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#else #find #getting #having #head

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawing #later #making #means #most