They Seldom Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the…
— Wendell Berry
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
— Samuel Johnson
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours…
— Joseph Addison
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A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality…
— Stephen Shore
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Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
— David Ogilvy
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When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
— Rebecca Solnit
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Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
— Alexander Hamilton
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People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they…
— Dave Ramsey
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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.
— John Kessel
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Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
— Luc de Clapiers
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what…
— Garrison Keillor
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when…
— Joyce Meyer
Who Wrote These They Seldom Quotes
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