Infrequently Quotes
51 quotes by 43 authors
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LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.
— CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
— Eric Hoffer
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There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right,…
— Albert Einstein
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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,…
— Don DeLillo
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No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
— Claire Danes
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly…
— Mandy Moore
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The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
— Tom Shales
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write…
— Alice Walker
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable…
— David Wroblewski
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When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before…
— David Wroblewski
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Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to…
— Jean Vanier
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I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
— Nick Hornby
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The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently…
— Carl Jung
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Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside…
— Lauren DeStefano
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