#seldom

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#accepted #adult #amazement #american #character

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. ↗

— Jane Austen

#belong #complete #disclosure #disguised #does

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#i #nostalgic #seldom #settled

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#i #play #rest #seldom #tend

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#arrangement #attire #great #great men #seldom

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#fallen #heroes #individually #invoke #our

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

#commonplace #each #granted #great #holds

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. ↗

— Epicurus

#directed #greatest #highest #his #interests

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. ↗

— Zola Budd

#always #athletics #background #barefoot #coming

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ↗

— John Burroughs

#feeling #funeral #go #history #i