#often

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

#brings #commonly #end #his #journey

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#cookie #destiny #find #fortune #me

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#always #asked #because #before #decided

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#despair #eagerness #hope #often #only

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human being #known #morality #needs

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#after #agreeing #approached #campaigning #ended

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ↗

— Mark Twain

#egg #hen #laid #merely #noise

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#activities #choices #inert #often #practice

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#exists #important #life #none #often

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#because #business #congress #democrat #democratic