Seldom Quotes
1113 quotes by 755 authors
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I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me…
— Nicholas Sparks
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One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra…
— Tony Kushner
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in…
— Adam Smith
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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,…
— Virginia Woolf
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The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
— Jonathan Swift
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We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where…
— Shane Koyczan
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the…
— Albert Camus
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What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.
— William Kent Krueger
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Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.
— Emily Giffin
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to…
— Fanny Burney
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I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.
— Margaret George
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things.…
— Holly Black
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Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.
— Penelope Fitzgerald
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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually…
— Terry Pratchett
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
— Thomas Hardy
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Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?†“It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
— John Marsden
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Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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