Quotes About Rarity

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

Era una imagen de luz y de esperanza que prometía cosas que sólo existen en las miradas de pocos años.

Niente è giusto. Al massimo si può sperare che sia logico. La giustizia è una malattia rara in un mondo per il resto sano come un pesce.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now.

There aren't too many Mookie Betts, Mike Trouts or Bryce Harpers out there to be grabbed. Those players only come around once every 10 years.

The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.

It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.

Maybe there's something instinctive in us, that we're drawn to human habitation and can't resist a ruin, the way newborn babies respond to a crude drawing of a face. These are the rarities in human history, the places from which we've retreated. These once-inhabited places play a different air to the uninhabited; they suggest the lost past, the lost Eden, not the Utopia to come.

A black luxury car at a Gibbes Museum event? Not exactly a rarity. But I don't believe in coincidence. My body was tired, and my mind completely shot, but my instincts were wide-awake. And they were in total agreement. I'm being followed.

YÅ«gi [paraphrasing Atem's perspective]: I can't bet my precious cards on a wager! A real rare card isn't about how scarce it is or how much money it costs...It's different for each person...it's the 40 cards they chose out of thousands and thousands to build their deck! All those cards are precious to the duelist who chose them! All of them are one-of-a-kind.

A thin pig was about as common as balls on a scarecrow.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. Who ever succeeded in draining the whole cup with grace?

In hindsight, these observations are obvious. If life-transforming missions could be found with just a little navel-gazing and an optimistic attitude, changing the world would be commonplace. But it's not commonplace; it's instead quite rare. This rareness, we now understand, is because these breakthroughs require that you first get to the cutting edge, and this is hard—the type of hardness that most of us try to avoid in our working lives. The

The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect to get a good job.

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return. In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job.

The narratives in this book are bound by a common thread: the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return. In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job.

Hay dos clases de hombres aquellos a quienes gusta lavar platos y aquellos a quienes gusta secar platos son mas frecuentes los primeros y mas raros y por ende mas requeridos los segundos.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

In Russia, receiving a letter was such a rare phenomenon that any member of the family who got his hands on it first opened it.

Common sense is very uncommon.