#seldom

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#behind #disappear #happens #interpreter #longer

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#expect #generally #happens #least #occurs

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#convenient #people #repent #seldom #then

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. ↗

— James Thurber

#dog #down #dragged #frequently #his

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day. ↗

— James Thomson

#dream #frequently #life #night #return

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. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. ↗

— Voltaire

#female #found #inventors #learned #manner

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. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#business #canons #either #evidence #faculty

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. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#age #attended #away #better #crossed

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#credit #draw #extent #full #into