Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
I seldom have my stuff up unless I’m testing it. If I’m worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.
You seldom hear any young artists in country music.
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
I am a complete movie buff who still prefers to go for the late night show and seldom watch movies at home.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
All I mean is, I’m not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it’s not very loud. That doesn’t mean I don’t like the movie.
Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.
Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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.
In today’s world, everyone’s so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It’s very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.
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.
I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: ‘Well, it won’t be good, but at least it’ll be good-looking. We’ll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.’
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing – mere drops in the bucket.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I’m able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.
I’ve been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
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.
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.
To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, ‘I wonder what we ought to do?’ Things are seldom crystal clear.
We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they’re seldom enforced.
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.
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
The thing that I love about ‘Will & Grace’ is that there’s a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It’s just a party, basically. I’m just having a ball.
Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
People seldom get the right platform or direction. I have seen a lot of people who did not get the right place to showcase their talent.
I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
I don’t consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue – I seldom leave the country.
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
Needless to say, it was the greatest of privileges to serve with the selfless men and women – Iraqi and American and those of our coalition partners, civilian as well as military – who did the hard, dangerous work of the surge. There seldom was an easy period; each day was tough.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.
