(493 quotes found)
“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.”
Robert Fripp
“It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear”
Dick Cavett
“Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.”
Tom Peters
“War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states”
Donald Kagan
“Seeing through is rarely seeing into”
Elizabeth Bibesco
“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces/ More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne./ More commonly it wheezes and tips over.”
Marge Piercy
“Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”
Chris Marker
