#often

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#almost #become #been #cause #delusion

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #best #closet #election #first

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ↗

— Minor White

#camera #enough #expose #film #hearts

I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will. ↗

— Reggie White

#ask #because #friend #had #homosexual

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. ↗

— Mae West

#more #often #shocked #should #those

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lead #life #often #real #real life

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#attachment #corners #ever #fiction #four

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#avoided #convincing #often #vulgar

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. ↗

— George Woodcock

#consequence #dramatically #negative #often #very