Quotes About Rarity

That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick, though in another day they would all be wilted. Sometimes Edmund would carry buckets and a trowel, and lift them earth and all, and bring them home to plant, and they would die. They were rare things, and grew out of ants' nests and bear dung and the flesh of perished animals.

Lo màs importante es la verdad, que siempre es arte y en cambio la mentira no, o sòlo rara vez

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Koltuk alt?nda kitaplar ta??d???n? görüyorum kardeÅŸim. Bugünlerde hâlâ kitap okuyan birine rastlamak gerçekten nadide bir zevk kardeÅŸim.

A fidelity extremely rare among one's friends.

Waffen-SS prisoners were conspicuous by their rarity, either because of their determination to go down fighting, or from being shot on sight by their captors. One

skeptics, believers, and good croquet players are harder to come by today . . .

In Victorian London, even in a place as louche and notoriously crime-ridden as Lambeth Marsh, the sound of gunshots was a rare event indeed.

I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million.

The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart, and pity are not sufficient.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life.

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

For all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

A lot of people recognise me now, especially the younger generations, definitely. But it's not that common.

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

I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

People who collect objects of rarity, my dear Eustacie, will often, so I believe, go to quite unheard of lengths to acquire the prize they covet.

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

But if some idiot hadn't made that hole it would be worth two hundred and fifty dollars. Yes, sir, no fooling! It's very rare." Mr. Alden said, "Yes, I know. That's why I wear it. I was the idiot who made that hole." "Sorry!" said Mr. Willet with a wink. "Didn't mean to hurt your feelings.