Rarely Quotes
1495 quotes by 1188 authors
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
— Richard Bach
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us.…
— Gaston Bachelard
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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…
— Russell Baker
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
— Hosea Ballou
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One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want…
— Charles Barkley
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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…
— Evan Bayh
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy…
— Annie Besant
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Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving…
— Eli Broad
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Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
— Eli Broad
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
— Alton Brown
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
— David Byrne
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that…
— David Byrne
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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…
— Michael Caine
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
— Albert Camus
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
— Albert Camus
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
— Orson Scott Card
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