Quotes About Rarity

I admire intelligence more than any other quality, except perhaps a good heart. It's rare.

But we exist now. We are caring, intelligent animals and can treasure our brief lives. Why is eternal better than temporal, or supernatural higher than natural? Doesn't rarity increase value? God is an idea, not a natural creature. Why should his image be more valuable than our own nature?

Beautiful. Jules once thought he'd understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in reserve for the rare, the arresting, the surprising . . . the magical. Or a new one invented.

There were those whose love spilled over into their every gesture, and so was shared by all who knew them. But they were rare folk indeed.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

Kantor's Andersonville," she said, adding, "It's a first edition.

Then the exception would be as if he did not exist at all.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.