Seldom Quotes

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Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and… — David Wilkerson
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and… — George Edward Woodberry
I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game. — John Wooden
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our… — Robert Ardrey
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. — Francis Bacon
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. — Dorothy Parker
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. — Frances Hardinge
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is… — Cormac McCarthy
Well-behaved women seldom make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. — Margaret Mitchell
Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often… — Lloyd Alexander
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — Jane Austen
In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All… — Leonard Cohen
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that… — Joseph Campbell
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly,… — Alan Bennett

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