Rarely Quotes

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.