#often

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#difficult #difficult time #each #hope #i

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#bottle #buy #difficult #distinguish #often

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#auditions #city #commercials #days #did

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#both #compromise #ending #good #hope

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#another #beings #best #family #finest

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#anything #believe #busy #childhood #doing

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#complex #find #first #first things #get

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. ↗

— Larry Elder

#battle #common-sense #contest #control #crook