I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
Hindered characters seldom have mothers in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.
Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.
The cautious seldom err.
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.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Those whom we first love we seldom marry