Quotes About Rarely

There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and release of a newchild, which always brought a sense of what-could-we-have-done. This was especially troubling for the Nurturers, like Father, who felt they had failed somehow. But it happened very rarely.

He seldom spoke so harshly in public.

Mostly, I heard about it from the Estate servants, who found it quite natural to speak openly of a death, but rarely said much about life, because in life everything was obvious.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

In the present age men are not very inclined to die in defence of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them.

Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept

Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

He mourned his wife more sincerely because he mourned her seldom.

Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius—he wants its bones and flesh.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

Guys like him, they nurse grudges, rarely abandon obsessions, and I don't believe they change.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Sir," I said, "except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

People talking big about the passion in each profession and at every occasion has been always in fashion since old generations but very rarely seen in any employed person.

In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.

Most people don't deserve the respect they demand, and the few that deserve respect, rarely if ever get it.

Roads with the most traffic get widened. The ones that are rarely used fall into disrepair.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

For the abductees are naturally filled with conflict at the prospect of forming a deep bond with an odd offspring that they can only see rarely at the pleasure of the alien beings.

Los crímenes «perfectos» raras veces se producían, pero los había. Normalmente no se debían al gran talento de los criminales sino a la ineptitud continuada de las autoridades, y en general se definían por la cuestión prosaica de si el autor salía impune o no.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

In real life, crime guns are very rarely left at the scene of incidents, and the only exceptions occur when criminals have been seriously injured or killed.