Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Change is rarely comfortable.
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.
As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.
In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.
I shampoo and condition with Kerastase products but rarely brush it because I'm all about the Kate Moss bed-head look.
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
