It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who are right with God and right with the world. I don't see that evidence very often. Daniel Everett
Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it. Brian P.Cleary
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League. Tug McGraw
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. Michael Johnson
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.Thomas Alva Edison
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?Charles Dickens
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. Chris Abani
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting. Curt Schilling
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. William Blum
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 with the alphabet. Chris Abani
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. Mark Twain
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Martin Amis
Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around. Raymond E.Feist
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches. Julian Barnes