Quotes About Rarity

amor es lo que pasa un año de cada diez

Now, these were hungry people who were very interested in acquiring protein. The simplest explanation for the lack of passenger pigeon bones is a lack of passenger pigeons. Prior to 1492, this was a rare species.

To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and yet to call in some extraordinary agent and to marvel greatly when a species ceases to exist, appears to me much the same as to admit that sickness in the individual is the prelude to death—to feel no surprise at sickness—but when the sick man dies to wonder, and to believe that he died through violence.

I bought a Lamborghini, SV Aventador, one of 600. Modified. There's other 'Lambos' out there, but that one I have is unique.

The good stories are everywhere. They are not made memorable by their rarity; they are made forgettable by their ubiquity.

Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste

out there houses are rare as rocking horse turds.

You're a rare one, Miss Hampton," was all he said. "Too bad you will not last." He talks as though he has murdered and buried a row of lady's companions in the shubbery somewhere, Susan thought as she labored on. Probably killed by his devastating wit.

An event that was rare in that twenty-five-year span may not be all that rare when placed in a longer historical context. After all, a researcher stands only a one-in-four chance of observing a "hundred-year flood" in twenty-five years

One of the things that's so overlooked by many people is what's in museum shops. Very often there is a really great product, and it doesn't cost a lot of money. At some point you won't be able to find it so easily anymore. That's when it becomes valuable.

Great abilities are rare, and they are often accompanied by qualities which make the abilities useless to him who has them, and even injurious to society.

Though the centuries have passed since Koheleth looked upon all things and found them fickle as wind, yet still we know little of what goes to the making of a man—least surely of all, why usually there issue forth only those who see what is, and why rarely, now and then, there comes forth among them the chosen one, Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be. Yet without this rare one all men are as beasts.

red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale. It may be a year before you see another.

His followers are scarcer than Jews in the Vatican.

I shall not look upon his like again.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

Is like finding a diamond asteroid in the rings of Saturn

Finding a mate, a true one, is a rare and precious thing

Puede ser que un caballo que cuenta sea raro –dijo el hombre– pero no puede ser que no tenga precio. No hay nada en el mundo que no tenga precio".

yo, nadie especial, supe que él no pertenecía a este mundo; lo supe desde el momento mismo en que puse mis ojos sobre él. Era como esos pájaros –no recuerdo ahora su nombre– que muy de vez en cuando descienden del cielo para que los meros seres terrestres los veamos, y luego levantan vuelo otra vez para continuar su eterno peregrinar.

You're one in a million, John Matthew

Rarity went hand in hand with reverence.