We Seldom Quotes
49 quotes by 43 authors
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to…
— Margaret Mead
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Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly.…
— Walter Cronkite
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
— Alberto Manguel
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
— Rahm Emanuel
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then…
— Stanislaw Lem
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
— Richard Dawkins
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and…
— Alan Watts
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We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
— Tami Hoag
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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
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will…
— Colum McCann
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Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to…
— B.F. Skinner
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What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.
— William Kent Krueger
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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
Who Wrote These We Seldom Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 49 We Seldom Quotes, led by these top contributors: