True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.
I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
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.
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
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.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.
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 conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.