Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
Chris Marker

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
Harriet Van Horne

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
Morris Dees

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Marilyn Ferguson

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
James Gould Cozzens

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Saint Francis de Sales

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Margot Asquith

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Ralph Nader

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
Nick Hornby

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
Gail Sheehy

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
John McCarthy

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
Jeff Vandermeer

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.
David Knopfler

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Sidney Hook

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge