Seldom Quotes

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When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from… — Edmund White
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Sons of suicides seldom do well. — Kurt Vonnegut
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor. — David Eddings
When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new… — Marianne Fredriksson
In my profession it isnâ€™t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best… — Walter Moers
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is our inward journey that leads us through time â€“ forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us… — Eudora Welty
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery,… — Michael Ende
You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Yeah, but youâ€™re a god of fate. Canâ€™t you change that? (Kat) Youâ€™re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
Youâ€™re a slave? (Eleni) I was. Iâ€™m sorry. I shouldnâ€™t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. Youâ€™ve done nothing to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are… — Samuel Johnson
Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up" - Will — John Flanagan
A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is… — Willa Cather
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it… — Cormac McCarthy

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