Quotes About Rarity

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

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

It's so rare, actors who are not vain.

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

Aside from the Parker Brothers' celebrated geochromatic view of the Previous World, it was the only pre-Epiphanic map known. But somehow its rarity wasn't enough to make it interesting, and we stared blankly for some minutes at the faded parchment, hoping to either misunderstand it on a deeper level or at least get our money's worth.

A born king is a very rare being.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Solar eclipses occur around two to five times per year but the area on the ground covered by the totality is very small, so in any given location on Earth a total eclipse will only happen once every 360 years.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

Lo besaba porque sabía que las oportunidades eran escasas para que tuviera muchos besos como este en su vida.

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.

Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best

You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.

Nothing is sweeter, but that which is scarce.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.

The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly

Time itself made all things rare.

That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that the hot apple pies aren't excellent or that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them for 99 cents. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.