Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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 we never burden supporters.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
