Top 606 Rarely Quotes

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won’t watch anything on television on myself.
Tyson Chandler
I live an isolated life, and I rarely meet others.
Varg Vikernes
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Hans Christian Andersen
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
Jonathan Sacks
I rarely wear clothes when I’m home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you’ve got to make sure the gardener’s not coming that day.
Kristen Bell
In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza r

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.
Michael Greger
I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don’t garden. And I don’t knit.
Christina Baker Kline
2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.
David Ignatius
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
Derek Bok
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.
George Clooney
When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
Bear Grylls
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
I’m not going to lie. I rarely wear sunblock.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Acting is a general thing; it’s not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don’t think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.
Tom Hollander
When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.
James E. Rogers
Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me.
Rosemary Mahoney
We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their ‘food’ face to face.
Elayne Boosler
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
Gail Sheehy
I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn’t lead to understanding or success?
Gina Barreca
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy – in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it’s not government’s role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer
Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.
Richard Roundtree
Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.
Roy H. Williams
Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.
Ryan Holmes
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
Adora Svitak
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer
I’ve been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad – resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes – rarely, but sometimes – people do get seriously injured. It’s a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you’re going to crash – guaranteed.
Elana Meyers
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.
Francis Chan
As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it’s rarely life or death.
Ryan Holmes
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it’s one we rarely address because it’s so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
Ani DiFranco
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
Anthony Trollope
I’ve rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
Rosemary Mahoney
I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.
Stella Young
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
Jonathan Dimbleby
I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.
Alex Morgan
My husband’s a man’s man, and he does guy films, and there’s rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.
Lela Rochon
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that

Well, there’s just some universal truths in a way that I’ve just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there’s these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
Feist
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
In my films that I’ve directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I’ve rarely used handheld. It’s just not something I’m drawn to, but I’ve seen it done very well.
Roman Coppola
If not for my mom, I wouldn’t be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.
Teresa Medeiros
We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it’s because we love them so much.
Adam Rayner
No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
John McEnroe
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
George Henry Lewes
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That’s a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you’ll rarely hear a politician make it.
James Surowiecki
Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.
Italo Calvino
I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.
Marcus Samuelsson
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Elinor Smith
For the most part, rock fans don’t go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It’s pretty much about downloads and streaming.
Scott Weiland
I’m a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o’clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that’s when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That’s when I have a bit of space for myself.
Joan Kirner
So many differing opinions and philosophies… are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
Jeff Vandermeer
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
Joan Kirner
I’m rarely singing in English.
Renee Fleming
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
There is a twinge of abandonment that comes with being a member of the African Diaspora. But ‘Black Panther’ fearlessly introduces and then complicates this and other deeply held albeit rarely expressed emotions; that indeed is what makes this film so profoundly innovative.
Joy Reid
I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
Arnold Palmer
We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they’re nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.
Indya Moore