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• It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

  Terry Pratchett

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Eyes, Fact, Often, Living, Die

• I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don’t travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Travel, Often

• I eat as often as I can. I’ll eat even if I don’t feel like eating.

  Brooke Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often

• I’ve always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.

  Brooke Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often, Person

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  Ian Hacking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happens, Human, Something, Often

• Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

  Robert Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Waste, Often

• I’ve never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Often

• Zealots often carry the day.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often, Carry

• Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists – the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people – tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn’t exist.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Often

• How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Angry, Often

• The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Often, Act

• There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the ’90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

  Andrew Bird

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Often, Artists

• Well, I don’t give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

  Barney Frank

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often

• I’m shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don’t think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me… but I haven’t got a free ride yet.

  Dan Stevens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often, Shocked, Recognized

• We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

  Baltasar Gracián

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Topics in Achievement, Vision

  Tags in Great, Often

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Reject, Often

• My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

  Sylvia Day

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Closet, Often