Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.
The public seldom forgive twice.
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.
The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us. . . He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly. . . Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?. . . That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
