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Quotes About Rarity

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
~ Tryon Edwards
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
~ E. B. White
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.
~ E. B. White
There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
Shrines are fascinating, especially when rarely opened.
~ E.M. Forster
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?
~ Edward Abbey
One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
~ Anonymous
It is the rarest thing...that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.
~ Anthony Doerr
every lost book, before it vanished forever, got down to one final copy somewhere, and how it made Hillary think about seeing a white rhinoceros in a zoo in Czechoslovakia once, how the sign said the rhino was one of the last twenty northern white rhinos in the world, the only one left in Europe
~ Anthony Doerr
Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. Some things are simply more rare than others, and that's why there are locks.
~ Anthony Doerr
His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers.
~ Anthony Doerr
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
~ Francesco Petrarca
Sonrió comprensivamente. mucho más que comprensivamente. Era una de esas raras sonrisas, con una calidad de eterna confianza, de esas que en toda la vida no se encuentran más que cuatro o cinco veces. Parecía contemplar por un instante el universo entero y después se concentraba en uno con irresistible parcialidad; lo comprendía a uno hasta el límite en que uno deseaba ser comprendido.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Having the chance to win a gold medal doesn't come around very often.
~ Aaron Ramsey
In 'Njan Prakashan,' we set aside conventional definitions of a hero. Fahadh Faasil does not play a protagonist who wins all the time and you can see the character flee during fights. Such a hero is a rarity and the viewers could easily identify with him.
~ Sreenivasan
It is rare for an artist to get acceptance by the north as well as the south audiences, and I have thankfully managed that.
~ Asin
The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.
~ Lauren Conrad
The true democrat wishes to share the great works of culture with all who are able to appreciate them; the egalitarian, recognizing that genuine excellence is rare, declares greatness a fraud and sets about obliterating distinctions.
~ Roger Kimball
Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down to it, no matter where and when, peace, dead calm, wars, convulsions... so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them... shovelsful!... but hearts?... very rare!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Wildflowers So rare, To show you I care. You are gold, I'm brass, You should kick My ass But you know I'm your friend. I'll love you Till the end.
~ Luanne Rice
It is not every day one sees a soul-even of a poem
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
his becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.
~ Malcolm Gladwell