Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran’s nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not...

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that’s often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little...

I find when somebody says to me, ‘I’m going to motivate you,’ more often than not, they’re not going to get me.

The personality problem is so tough when you’re not able to pay people. It’s bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

I’ve been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I’ve often had a guide who’s been able...

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Novelists don’t age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life...

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It’s too often the way it’s done in Washington.

It’s important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child’s interest...

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating....

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one’s life that one hasn’t come to terms with.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work...

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is...

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world,...

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin’s lyrics often do – sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton’s and Bernie’s personal styles, no...

Santa Fe is a great place which people don’t get there often, but it’s like a unique place.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Even more than this, however, the sick – like lepers – were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

I have grown up in Delhi in a way, and I keep coming here often. But, and I am sorry to say, I’ll always be nervous when in Delhi. In my college days, I have...

Africa’s informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without...

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed...

It’s how I express myself – through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway...

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm...

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don’t see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

I’m very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

In sports, championships often define a person’s legacy.

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

The books I loved in childhood – the first loves – I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.