In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry A. Kissinger

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
Tony Blair

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
Angela Merkel

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
Angela Merkel

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug

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

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
Henry A. Wallace

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca