Rarely Quotes
1495 Rarely quotes by 1159 unique authors
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen…
— Sinclair Lewis
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I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My…
— Harry Reid
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the…
— Akira Kurosawa
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People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not…
— William H. Whyte
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We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely…
— Bill Bradley
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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men…
— Ashley Montagu
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people tend to choose…
— Francis Chan
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Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same…
— John Robbins
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period…
— William Redington Hewlett
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely…
— Freeman Dyson
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of…
— Bell Hooks
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are…
— Alfred Kinsey
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The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
— Hallie Ephron
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Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many…
— Roger Swain
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The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the…
— Unknown Author
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Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated…
— Francine Mathews
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From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are…
— Dawna Markova
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A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
— Christian McEwen
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If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are…
— Leslie Morgan Steiner
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Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is…
— Peter Orner
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I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.
— Ross Lovegrove
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I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to…
— Ricky Skaggs
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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before…
— George Eliot
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A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a…
— Walter Lippmann
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