Rarely Quotes

1495 Rarely quotes by 1159 unique authors

I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it,… — Annie Dillard
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen. — C J Cherryh
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many, — Dick Cheney
It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience. — Anthony Bourdain
It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy. — Edward Glaeser
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of… — Elie Wiesel
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. — Barbara Hepworth
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to… — Kinky Friedman
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not… — Charles Caleb Colton
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to… — Hal Linden
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good… — Douglas Adams
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges… — Minor White
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality… — Stephen Shore
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously. — Randall Munroe
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good. — Amy Lowell
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard… — Condoleezza Rice
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. — Paul Keres
For rarely man escapes his destiny. — Ludovico Ariosto
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. — Torquato Tasso
The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be… — James A. Baldwin
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems… — Mark Helprin
Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison… — Mahatma Gandhi

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