Quotes About Rarity

Ask yourself how many of the billions of inhabitants of this planet have any idea of how rare it is to have been born as a human being.

Poetry is what frightens. It is rare, and worth waiting for.

The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

It appears that so-called common sense is a most uncommon commodity nowadays.

T.R. "Tina" Threston is one of the most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and calling friend. There are many beautiful women in the world, but, most of the beauty is skin deep. Tina is the exception to this rule -- her beauty radiates from within from her intellect to her compassion for others, and, she is a true physical beauty -- very pleasing to the eye. She is a rare gem in today's society. Any man lucky enough to capture her heart should hold on tight and not let go.

But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.

No seas modesto en estos tiempos la valentía es un bien bastante escaso.

Many readers will be inclined to dismiss my arguments and will do so too hastily. When rejecting an unpopular view, it is extraordinarily easy to be overly confident in the force of one's responses. This is partly because there is less felt need to justify one's views when one is defending an orthodoxy. It is also partly because counter-responses from those critical of this orthodoxy, given their rarity, are harder to anticipate.

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

True friendship is a rare and valuable gift not a commodity

Honesty in itself is one of life's rarest gifts

I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

For herself, she declared that she paid no attention to her birthdays—didn't give a hoot about them; and it is true that when you have amassed several dozen of the same sort of thing, it loses that rarity which is the excitement of collectors.

Buddhists consider a personal encounter with a buddha a rare chance, and an occasion for deep gratitude. The rarity of this opportunity is emphasized by the Buddhist saying that it is as difficult for a living being to be born human and to encounter the Buddha as for a blind turtle that raises its head above the surface of the sea only once in a hundred years to put its head in a hole in a floating log. This metaphor encourages the devotee to pursue religious training.

There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong." But she is not using her strengths and abilities to compete with her husband. She is not driven by an identity crisis or treating her marriage as a matter of sexual politics. She is too mature for that. She is giving herself away to her husband, her family, and her community with wholehearted selflessness. A woman of this quality is rare: "An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and it's going to get industry attention and that's going to be your thing. And it was only later on at school that we realized that's very rare that a short film is going to capture the attention of anyone.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.