Quotes About Rarity

I value it as a morsel of genuine history, a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

Una cosa o l'altra: ci vuole forza per ricordare, ci vuole un altro tipo di forza per dimenticare, ci vuole un eroe per fare le due cose insieme. Chi ricorda corteggia la pazzia attraverso il dolore, il dolore dell'eterno ritorno della morte alla propria innocenza; chi dimentica corteggia un altro tipo di follia, la follia della negazione del dolore e dell'odio per l'innocenza; e il mondo si divide per lo più tra pazzi che ricordano e pazzi che dimenticano. Gli eroi sono rari.

When there are a dozen Babe Ruths, there are none.

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

You come across those real, genuine friendships so rarely in your life and they are so precious, you know the people who really have your back, who love you unconditionally and aren't your family. You don't stumble across those people very often.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless.

Yes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but be gifted with a rare catch: that one which lives with "forever faithfulness." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

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.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Constancy in a man is rare.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer.

A well-written life is almost as rare as one well-spent.

Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.