Seldom Quotes
1113 quotes by 730 authors
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us,…
— Alain de Botton
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We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as…
— Stefan Zweig
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She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist-…
— Haruki Murakami
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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.
— Charles Bukowski
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It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
— John Piper
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It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
— Dan Brown
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If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux…
— Edward Gorey
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Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
— Cullen Hightower
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims…
— Leo Tolstoy
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When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles…
— Robert E. Quinn
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You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
— Samuel Johnson
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