Infrequent Quotes

#1. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

#2. Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.

Erin McKean

#3. For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

Nir Eyal

#4. To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

#5. Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

William Kingdon Clifford

#6. Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood.

Harris L Coulter

#7. Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how badly you'd fucked up your life.

Nick Flynn

#8. Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

H.G.Wells

#9. People forget your face after a book tour or an infrequent appearance on Letterman, but put your face on your books and you're handing them your life. They presume to know what you think or who you are.

Katherine Reay

#10. The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps ...

Martin Luther

#11. In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

Bruce Beresford

#12. Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

Francis Thompson

#13. Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#15. Since the kid-free time was so infrequent, she eagerly dove back into the world of Forks High School.

Melanie Codina

#16. The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.

Emil M. Cioran

#17. Change is ok, I guess. In small, infrequent, and easily chewable doses.

Brandon Williams

#18. It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

Eric Topol

#19. It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

#20. One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough.

Annie Proulx

#21. My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Fritz Sauckel

#22. Black Moon - The second new moon of a month, an infrequent event.

C.L. Bevill

#23. I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

Joseph Epstein

#24. Mr. Sherlock Holmes ... was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. If it had been an outright junkyard, probably he could have stuck things out, made a career: the violence that had caused each wreck being infrequent enough, far enough away from him, to be miraculous, as each death, up till the moment of our own, is miraculous.

Thomas Pynchon

#27. Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

Angela Carter

#28. Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

Albert Einstein

#29. 'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is happening, when in fact something rare or infrequent is happening.'

Marcello Truzzi

#30. Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

Joyce Carol Oates

#31. they were excited by these bombings in a way that only victims of esoteric, infrequent tragedies are motivated by horrors

Karan Mahajan

#32. And that infrequent and devastating smile - and eyes just the color of a Scottish loch at sunset, sort of green-gold, like summer bracken or polished cairngorm.

Josh Lanyon

#33. Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Benjamin Franklin