Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.
It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence.
Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
One of the significant facts about the moment of birth is that it is an unconscious moment. No one ever knows when he is being born that the event is actually taking place, and sometimes we don't find out about it until quite a long time afterward. Sometimes, we never do really find out that we have been born. So frequently, we don't know why we were born; we don't know where we came from; we don't know what the purpose of life is; nor do we understand the possibilities of our godly destiny.
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
. . . conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.