Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.
What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.
Often one is more attached to the journey than to the discovery... because the journey happens in the mind... the discovery happens in the heart.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.