Seldom Quotes

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The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a… — Nikki Giovanni
Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek â€” why, for example, people would rather make love with… — Steven Pinker
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do. — Dorothy Height
When a manâ€™s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion â€“ when his hands are never employed in doing Godâ€™s work â€“ when his feet… — J C Ryle
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity… — Shirley Hazzard
To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied… — John Boyd Orr
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing. — Elisabeth Elliot
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. — Richard Russo
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. — Samuel Richardson
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing… — Niles Eldredge
Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and… — Thomas Kuhn
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. — Adam Hochschild
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. — Amit Abraham
The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong. — Robert Breault
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to… — Elwyn Brooks White
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives… — Harlan Ellison
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future… — Edward R. Murrow
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. — Anton Chekhov

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