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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
Opportunity
See
Able
Seldom
Had
Until
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
Michael Ende
Life
Time
Great
Take For Granted
Thought
Think
Though
About
Rates
Mystery
Seldom
Take
Never
Shared
Most
Known
Quite
Holds
Which
Commonplace
Us
Granted
Each
Twice
Second
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Those
Scales
Seldom
Weighed
Same
Suffer
Injuries
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer
History
Second-Hand
Other
Properly
Only
Seldom
Also
Metal
However
Hand
Inferior
Hands
Newspapers
Works
Second
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore
Best
You
Dog
World
Down
Bath
Meet
Meeting
Emails
Those
Rushing
Voice
Seldom
Come
Ideas
Make
Deadline
Juggling
Hammock
Heard
Walking
Soaking
Upside
Upside Down
Turn
Your
Eureka
Moments
Swinging
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.
Dave Ramsey
Business
People
Bird
Marketing
Systematic
Eye
Launch
Hurry
Seldom
Look
Plan
Create
Product
View
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
Friendship
Increases
Visiting
Seldom
Friends
Them
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
George Gurdjieff
Man
Mistake
Long
Half
Think
Changing
Remains
Seldom
Never
He
Hour
Greatest
Always
Continually
Same
Even
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
Sad
Me
Think
About
Touch
Seldom
Never
Like
Perhaps
Make
Limitations
Yearning
Times
Just
Breeze
Among
Flowers
Vague
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi
God
Worships
Seldom
He
His
Stomach
Who
Slave
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
Life
Success
Man
Confidence
Mother
Feeling
Has-Been
Darling
Triumphant
Seldom
Throughout
He
Along
Been
His
Which
Actual
Brings
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
Politics
Wisdom
Great
Together
Minds
Magnanimity
Seldom
Empire
Go
Truest
Little
Little Minds
Ill
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
James Thurber
Man
Dog
Down
Seldom
Frequently
Been
His
Up
Successful
Level
Dragged
Pulling
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
John James Audubon
Hope
Best
Great
Birds
Distance
Flying
Hopes
Guns
Seldom
Reached
Shy
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon
Great
History
Change
Leader
Control
Situation
Think
Great Extent
Destiny
Running
Direction
Seldom
He
Step
Forces
Another
His
Very
Any
Extent
Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
Spike Lee
Me
You
Rest
Think
Hungry
Spirit
Seldom
Roaming
Like
Because
Am
Still
Heard
Stopping
While
Here
Night
Thirsty
Sleep
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
Character
Respect
Struggle
Acceptance
Met
Inevitable
Distaste
Outcome
Enthusiastic
Emerges
Fact
Seldom
Adult
Accepted
Female
Amazement
Won
Survivors
American
Often
Formidable
Even
Deserves
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
Tom Stoppard
Honesty
Honesty Is
Seldom
Often
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Ambition
Seldom
Leads
Return
Does
Often
To Love
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Success
People
See
Insignificant
Seldom
Steps
Most
Achieved
Which
Success Is
Painful
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Best
Business
Trouble
Considering
Projects
Those
Carrying
Adopted
Having
Previous
Seldom
Take
Generally
New
Like
Execution
Occasion
Forced
Govern
New Projects
Hands
Public
Much
Measures
Who
Therefore
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
Bob Monkhouse
Silence
Only
Seldom
Misquoted
Golden
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill
Best
Eyes
Win
Soften
Honorable
Way
Intolerable
Ways
Best Way
More
Seldom
Open
Indulgence
Dealt
Malice
May
Against
Them
Your
Tolerate
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
Liberty
Lost
Once
Kind
Seldom
Any
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
David Seabury
Others
Consider
Considerate
Seldom
He
Himself
Who
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
Tyrants
Seldom
Want
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