Seldom Quotes

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Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You seldom hear any young artists in country music. — Conway Twitty
Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate… — Tony Levin
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing — H. L. Mencken
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas… — Carson McCullers
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. — Martin Van Buren
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. — Mason Cooley
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. — Carl von Clausewitz
To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art'… — M.C. Escher
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will — Donna Leon
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not… — George Gaylord Simpson
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know… — C. Wright Mills
There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations. — Zig Ziglar
You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy. — Zig Ziglar
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is… — A J Muste
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. — Harpo Marx
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different. — Dieter Rams
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is… — Joseph Hall

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