Quotes About Rarity

Qué va, the boy said. There are many good fisherman and some great ones. But there is only you.

Vamos, I'm not ugly. I was born ugly. All my life I have been ugly. You, Inglés, who know nothing about women. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare

It is why I bother with you, he said. I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.

Les morts sont plus nombreux que les vivants. Leur nombre augemente. Les vivants sont rares.

In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that.

In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us.

The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people.

It is surprising the amount of talk that two people will get through during a week of solid tête-à-tête. Now in modern life it is an extreme rarity, outside marriage, to get a week of uninterrupted companionship with any human being.

People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

But people who fundamentally change are rare, in my experience, because it's bloody hard work compared to going on a march or waving a flag. Have we met a single person on this case who's radically different to the person they were forty years ago?" "I don't know . . . I think I've changed," said Robin, then felt embarrassed to have said it out loud. Strike looked at her without smiling for the space it took him to chew and swallow a chip, then said, "Yeah. But you're exceptional, aren't you?

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Wit and high spirits and a sense of fun- yes, they're wonderful things. But a sense of humour- a real one- is a rarity and can be utter hell. Because it's immoral, you know, in the real sense of the word: I mean, it makes its own laws; and it possesses the person who has it like a demon. Fools talk about it as though it were the same thing as a sense of balance, but believe me, it's not. It's a sense of anarchy, and a sense of chaos. Thank God it's rare.

Nunca ha sido tan fácil como ahora manejar el cotarro en los negocios, porque muy pocos competidores invierten los medios necesarios para dominar en su sector. La perfección es una rareza, y la gente que opera al nivel más alto es muy escasa. ¡Así que el triunfo está asegurado!

common sense is no t always common

Cosa rara, su voz que conocía tan bien, de la que se dice que es el grano mismo del recuerdo (" la querida inflexión..."), no la oigo. Como una sordera localizada...

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

This was loyalty of a sort which was rare in an age of self-indulgence. It was an old-fashioned virtue of the type which her philosophical colleagues extolled but could never themselves match.

Are you always this honest?" "Almost never

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close.