Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.
I've noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith, will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
The public seldom forgive twice.
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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 is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.
When you have friends in the industry, you're always expected to talk about work. Seldom do you talk about stuff outside work with friends in the industry. Therefore, I don't have many actor friends, but I find lot of brotherly warmth from a few.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.
To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.
All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
