Top 100 Rarely Quotes
#1. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
Carol Tavris
#2. Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
Honore De Balzac
#3. It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#4. It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.
Kristin Cashore
#5. Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.
Stan Lee
#6. Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
Brandon Boyd
#7. She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.
Emma Donoghue
#8. I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.
Andy Samberg
#9. There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought.
Chris Matakas
#10. Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth.
Ina May Gaskin
#11. Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.
Donna Lynn Hope
#12. 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
#13. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Douglas Coupland
#14. People ended up together for a lot of reasons, and very rarely was one of those reasons the kind of kissing-on-a-mountaintop-at-sunset bullshit you saw in movies. Mostly people were just too chickenshit to walk through the world alone.
Lisa Henry
#15. The victors' view of history rarely matches that of the vanquished.
Kevin Hearne
#16. History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.
Ron Paul
#18. Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.
Emo Philips
#19. I will warn you now; adventures rarely, if ever, end. Once you step out on one you can never leave it behind; it follows you forever. Even if you make it home unharmed, you will never make it home unchanged.
Jenelle Schmidt
#20. If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
Barbra Streisand
#21. Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses ... the louses.
Yvonne De Carlo
#22. He was rarely happy throughout his life but he was a good Rider and a good man.
Christopher Paolini
#23. With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.
Peter Milligan
#25. I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
Gary Oldman
#26. I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.
C.W. Gortner
#27. Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely - perhaps never - furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives.
Joyce Carol Oates
#28. I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.
Nicole Holofcener
#29. I wake up, eat, make a beat. Play Xbox, make another beat and go to bed. Occasionally do something. I rarely party.
Boi-1da
#30. Life isn't kind, and we rarely get what we want out of it. We do the best we can, and we keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Katherine Allred
#32. Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
Lord Chesterfield
#34. Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
#35. If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.
Larry Winget
#36. If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis.
Kenneth J.W. Craik
#37. We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.
Robert McKee
#38. It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.
Catherynne M Valente
#39. Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
Gene Tierney
#40. To be standing together in a frosty field, looking up into the sky, marvelling at birds and revelling in the natural world around us, was a simple miracle. And I wondered why we were so rarely able to appreciate it.
Lynn Thomson
#41. Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition.
Dallas Willard
#42. But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think of great things, princes will more rarely carry out fine actions, and the people will continue to be vile, corrupt, and unhappy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#43. Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
Cassandra Clare
#44. A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that pre-dominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.
W.K. Marriott
#45. Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In
David Allen
#46. history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the plights, justifications and heroics of the losers are gone with time. Ours is such a history. We are stronger, yet rarely
H.K. Savage
#47. At parties, everyone always thinks I'm drinking, but actually I rarely drink. I live on energy drinks, basically. I love vitamin water.
Paris Hilton
#48. When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.
James E. Rogers
#49. While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
Eva Hoffman
#50. Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
Tracy Austin
#51. that imposter or phony feeling at work or school rarely has anything to do with our abilities, but has more to do with that fearful voice inside of us that scolds and asks, "Who do you think you are?
Brene Brown
#53. For-profit weather forecasters rarely predict exactly a 50 percent chance of rain, which might seem wishy-washy and indecisive to consumers.41 Instead, they'll flip a coin and round up to 60, or down to 40, even though this makes the forecasts both less accurate and
Nate Silver
#54. I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
Hal Linden
#56. The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.
Bill Dedman
#57. Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
George Akerlof
#58. I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.
Tallulah Bankhead
#59. Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
William Osler
#60. This season's promotion was a set of knives. Anna saved the stickers - Merkli - but rarely cashed them in.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#61. Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
Naomi Weisstein
#64. Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
Michael Azerrad
#65. A woman stood on the sidewalk, her arms outstretched and her face turned to the sky. Sheer enjoyment splashed across her features, its intensity tugging at his heart. It was a raw emotion he rarely witnessed.
Cheryl Sterling
#66. There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.
Peter Hook
#67. You can have all this mismatched Tupperware and lids, but you can never get them sealed quite right. That one edge always keeps popping up. It's supposed to fit, but it rarely does. You've gotta try a few lids before you find the one that actually snaps.
Alyson Hannigan
#68. Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.
Bear Grylls
#69. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#70. People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#71. People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.
Arundhati Roy
#72. 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
#73. The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it ... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
Zadie Smith
#74. My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.
Robyn Davidson
#76. As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#77. I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life.
Shane Carruth
#78. Wisdom is the inner form of man, and rarely are adjusted out
Haruni Machumu
#79. We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
Rumi
#80. Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.
Irving Kristol
#81. We firmly oppose the use of violence in the course of current transformations in Arab States, especially against civilians. We are well aware of the fact that the transformation of a society is a complex and generally long process, which rarely goes smoothly.
Sergei Lavrov
#82. I've never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it's almost never true altruism.
Donald J. Trump
#83. There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
Patrick Rothfuss
#84. Rarely are there photographs or films of death by bombs or missiles. Therefore, the moment a mother and her children die when a U.S. missile hits their house makes no emotional impact on us. We don't see that moment, so it almost always remains anonymous. IS
Jurgen Todenhofer
#86. Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
Walter Savage Landor
#87. Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
Orrin Woodward
#88. Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast.
Auliq Ice
#89. We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
Shane Koyczan
#90. I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.
Philippe Kahn
#91. We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
#92. Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
Stephen Kinzer
#93. I remember when I fell from my first bike:
There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?'
Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel ...
That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.
Big K.R.I.T.
#94. Life, especially in relation to other women, would always be a competition, one she would rarely win.
Anthony McCarten
#95. One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.
Scott Weiss
#96. I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears ... to my constant regret.
Fritz Lang
#97. But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.
Robert Barry
#98. I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'Rourke
#99. The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
Jean De La Bruyere
#100. MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off.
Cherise Sinclair
