Rarely Quotes

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.