Very Rarely Quotes

#1. We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. We like them while they're winning.

Fredrik Backman

#2. I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

Bill Hybels

#3. From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

Stella Young

#4. The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Once a person is at the center of love, there is very rarely a possibility for him to fall back down, because he has tasted something of the heights. Now valleys will be very dark, ugly; he has seen sunlit peaks, not very high, but still high; now his whole desire will be ...

Rajneesh

#6. 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

#7. Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

Peter Greenaway

#8. I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

Phil Collins

#9. 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

#10. My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

Robyn Davidson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Barack Obama

#15. Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

#19. To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed;

Charlotte Bronte

#20. My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.

Lou Reed

#21. Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

Gerald Seymour

#22. I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

Andre Gide

#23. It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

Anthony Bourdain

#24. I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

Dylan Moran

#25. one thing I've learned in my lifetime is that things are very rarely as clear cut as black or white, good or evil, but varying shades of gray depending on which side you view them from.

Wendy Scott

#26. Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.

Marie Helvin

#27. The very odd thing about sagas [ ... ] is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

David Gemmell

#28. Life very rarely ever works out perfectly. We have to accept the people we love, flaws and all, and be thankful we got them in the first place.

Liz Schulte

#29. Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

Richard Lugar

#30. I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.

Jeanette Winterson

#31. You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth ... after the fact.

Andy Serkis

#32. The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

Horace Walpole

#33. Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

William Congreve

#34. I am a board game enthusiast, a board game evangelist, a board game nerd, but I wouldn't say I'm 'keen' because I very rarely win, and 'keen' suggests you're actually good at something. But I do play a lot of them, and I have a pretty good-sized collection.

Rich Sommer

#35. Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly.

Edmund Burke

#36. Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.

Clare Balding

#37. It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Leon Battista Alberti

#38. I very rarely get actually sad when ending a movie.

Mila Kunis

#39. Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.

Jeff Barry

#40. To ACCEND (ACCE'ND) v.a.[accendo, Lat.]To kindle, to set on fire; a word very rarely used. Our devotion, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort.Decay of Piety.

Samuel Johnson

#41. For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.

Scott Weiland

#42. In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

Brendan Rodgers

#43. Great lives are very rarely created in great comfort.

Jon Acuff

#44. People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Ricky Gervais

#45. I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

John Oates

#46. We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Sarah Bernhardt

#47. You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.

Regina Doman

#48. When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling ... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony ... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.

Richard Diebenkorn

#49. I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.

Nicolas Roeg

#50. My own gut feeling is that everyone's psychic ... and it's so ingrained a part of us that we very rarely notice it. The talent may be largely preventative, and that keeps it from being noticed, too.

Stephen King

#51. Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Nick Hornby

#52. Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

Douglas Booth

#53. Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really proud of and I think I'm putting out a great product.

Jimmy Pardo

#54. It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

C.S. Lewis

#55. Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps; we have to work for them.

Emilyann Girdner

#56. I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

Andy Goldsworthy

#57. A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Christian McEwen

#58. very rarely does change come in the form you imagined it would. When you're in the cocoon you never know what kind of butterfly is gonna come flying out.

Ron Perlman

#59. when you come to higher suffering- for an idea, for instance- he will very rarely admit that, perhaps because my face strikes him as not at all what he fancies a man should have who suffers for an idea. And so he deprives me instantly of his favor, and

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#60. I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Al Sharpton

#61. I'm very rarely beyond words, and I am right now.

John O'Hurley

#62. The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.

Volker Ullrich

#63. At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

Hermann Hesse

#64. My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#65. Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

Rosalind Wiseman

#66. Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#67. I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

Tarsem Singh

#68. Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Cory Doctorow

#69. Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

Ada Leverson

#70. But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

Hari Kunzru

#71. Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

David Remnick

#72. Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#73. Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie

#74. It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

Dominic Cooper

#75. A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

D.H. Lawrence

#76. Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

James Cromwell

#77. Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Steven Wright

#78. Except that, very rarely, when the sun shines on her in the same way the sun's rays light up the inside of Stonehenge once a year, Jack finds Ruthy mesmerising.

Jonathan Dunne

#79. Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.

Robert E. Howard

#80. My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Charles Francis Richter

#81. In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Joe Elliott

#82. By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.

Stefan Sagmeister

#83. Very, very rarely do you find bands underpricing.

Michael Cohl

#84. Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

Jonathan Ross

#85. Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage.

Thomm Quackenbush

#86. I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.

Yigal Azrouel

#87. Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.

Dean O'Gorman

#88. I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#89. I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.

Matt Kuchar

#90. The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

Terry Pratchett

#91. In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled.

Brad Goreski

#92. Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

Allen Johnson

#93. I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

Maximilian Schell

#94. Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

Martin Fleischmann

#95. Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.

Christian Wiman

#96. I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Ben Barnes

#97. Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Samuel Johnson

#98. Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

Adam McKay

#99. Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Larry Kramer

#100. What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Arthur C. Clarke