10 QUOTES WITH «MORE OFTEN THAN NOT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
more often than not.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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 trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.
My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.
With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.
Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MORE OFTEN THAN NOT»
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The NFL Draft: How "The Experts" Get It Wrong
More Often ...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt.
David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt, 2010
2
True Warrior: The Autobiography of David John Di Palma
... epilepsy and not my work standards so more often than not I'd be shown the
door. My epilepsy took its toll though, my seizures were never quite in control and
what I'd find was that more often than not after a trial period the job would end.
3
Sex and Friendship in Baboons
This means that females were primarily responsible for differences in close
proximity between Friends and Non-Friends even though, more often than not,
the females were not primarily responsible for close proximity between Friends.
4
The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and ...
In that case, Aristotle would be relying on his familiar distinction between chance
events, of the sort which happen no more often than not (and hence the
temporally indefinite sentences keyed to them are no more often true than false),
and ...
5
An Idea of the Drama: Six Modern Playwrights in One Movement ...
We weren't terribly elaborate in cooking, didn't have the time, but every so often
dished up an incredibly enormous stew, guzzled the lot, and then more often than
not sat up half the night reading Yeats. Pause (T o herself) Yes. Every so often.
6
Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the ...
To be sure, danger is more often than not represented as disease, dirt, or
pollution. As one medical text argues: 'Disease is shock and danger for existence
.'32 Or as Karl Jaspers maintains: 'Disease is a general concept of non-value
which ...
More often than not I do it in the whatever class comes before the one in which it
is due, really waiting until the last minute.” “Ahhck!” “What?” “You said often,
pronouncing the 't'. It's often. No 't' sound.” “I've always heard it often with a 't'.
Teel McClanahan III, Teel McClanahan, 3rd, 2008
8
Autism Spectrum Disorders Through the Life Span
More often than not people with an ASD will not have a secure enough grasp of
these rules to know how to call an offender to account, and how to split them from
their allies so that they can be dominated, and made to submit. More often than ...
9
Eden in Egypt: Adam and Eve were Pharaoh Akhenaton and ...
As was explained in the book Solomon, the role of God's Wife, or Virgin, was
extremely prestigious, and so the lady in question was often one of the highest
ranking women in Egypt. More often than not she was the pharaoh's eldest
daughter, ...
10
Responsibility in Law and Morality
People who possess minimum capacity are able, more often than not, to comply
with interpersonal standards;47 and people of greater competence can comply
more often than people of lesser competence, especially shortcomers. Because ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MORE OFTEN THAN NOT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
more often than not is used in the context of the following news items.
Time to abolish the MRP
More often than not, the rule of MRP is breached rather than honoured. First, the MRP applies only to commodities and not services. Second ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Ranking NFL Quarterbacks By How Often They Stink It Up
... doesn't have a lot of poor games with a sub 66.7 passer rating, because the rest of the Cowboys have left him hanging more often than not. «Blogging The Boys, Jul 15»
'Weird Al' on writing: Yankovic, who's performing in Portland Sunday …
I am just going for a cheap laugh, more often than not, but sometimes I tap into something accidental that people can relate to or apply to their ... «Portland Phoenix, Jul 15»
Forward from Conversion: How We Can Focus on Spiritual Growth …
More often than not people respond to Christ because they are in a life crisis, not just because they wake up feeling the need to be closer to ... «ChristianityToday.com, Jul 15»
7 Challenges Successful People Overcome
More often than not, the people you've surrounded yourself with are the root of your problems. “You'll never reach your peak until you surround ... «Entrepreneur, Jul 15»
The Future of the 'Terminator' Franchise is Uncertain
The dating of future sequels is never a sure thing. Release dates not only get switched all the time, but more often than not, news of sequels are ... «/FILM, Jul 15»
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
... the audience's opinion is truly an inspiring to behold—I can't stress enough that this movie just doesn't give a fuck, and more often than not in ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
Russia: The countryside haunts of Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Tolstoy
... a long white beard slipping by, crunching lime leaves underfoot, heading off to make trouble – more often than not with a winsome serf girl. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
IHMS revelations bolster the legal and political case against the …
It is only by leaks and litigation that the neglect and cruelties ever see the light of day and, more often than not, when court proceedings turn up ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Asymmetrical Payoff + Case Study: Petrobras
More often than not, such payoffs only exists in the low quality businesses – companies that have been rejected, under-followed and unheard ... «ValueWalk, Jul 15»
