A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered - others just as infuriating.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.