Seldom Means Quotes

#1. Love so seldom means happiness.

Margery Allingham

#2. I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior

John Newton

#3. I guess Satan was the first superhero [ ... ] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

Joe Hill

#4. Love can show itself in many strange ways,

David Eddings

#5. Seek not the favor of the mulititude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. Immanuel Kant

Bohdi Sanders

#6. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Thomas Paine

#7. We are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity - we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the abstract function of pity.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Magic persists without us
no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

Charles Bukowski

#9. When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

Freida Pinto

#10. Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.

Thomas Sowell

#11. As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#12. Similarly we are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity--we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

Fanny Fern

#14. To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Henri Nouwen

#15. Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Margot Asquith

#16. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.

C. Wright Mills

#17. Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant

#18. But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness. Yet whether one's end be the usual end - a wealthy position in life - or no, the name of wisdom is seldom applied but to the means to that usual end.

Thomas Hardy

#19. At some point we have to be able to say, "I have no idea what is going on." Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder if that's the whole trip, so that we can actually know what's going on. Hmmmmmmmm.

Art Hochberg

#20. Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable.

Steven Erikson

#21. The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Mark Twain

#22. I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.

Robert Schimmel

#24. It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

Chase Utley

#25. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

John Locke