Seldom Quotes

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.