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Quotes About Rarity

Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)
~ Matt Ridley
Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.
~ Meg Cabot
Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anyway, Phillip isn't like that. From what I can see, Phillip has good judgement and he genuinely cares about me. And those might be rare qualities in seventeen-year-old boys these days. Not that I'm an expert. Although I am getting better at it.
~ Melody Carlson
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
~ Michael Eisner
Shame is a scarce commodity in politics
~ Unknown
Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.
~ Mindy Kaling
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
she was a rare, beautiful gift. And such a gift, came the ice-cold reminder from the core of his nature, would only end up crushed and bloody and defiled should he attempt to handle it.
~ Nalini Singh
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Amy Stroup has what is a rarity among most people doing music but common for all great artists that make a real impact – unique artistry that is immediately identifiable. That special something that cuts through the noise. I've been a fan since the first song.
~ Unknown
The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent.
~ Nevada Barr
fairly rare occurrence these days. Plus, she has already spoken to her mother
~ Unknown
Time has told me Your're a rare, rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind
~ Nick Drake
That was a really rare event. I don't think It's an exaggeration to say that It was the one and only time in my life that I refused something offered to me. My unhappiness was the happiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity
~ Osamu Dazai
True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter into this closest relationship with Jesus Christ.
~ Oswald Chambers
Everyone has a soul. But the great man—the truly significant soul—is rare.
~ Oswald Spengler
it was only a thought, one in a million. It was not an action.
~ Patrick Ness
The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
La dulce sonrisa de una mujer joven: no hay nada mejor en el mundo. Es más valiosa que la sal. Sin ella, algo enferma y muere dentro de nosotros. Estoy seguro. Una cosa tan simple. Qué raro. Qué maravilloso y qué raro.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
La dulce sonrisa de una mujer joven: no hay nada mejor en el mundo. Es más valiosa que la sal. Sin ella, algo enferma y muere dentro de nosotros. Estoy seguro. Una cosa tan simple. Qué raro. Qué maravilloso y qué raro. Penthe
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Des Menschen Duft an und für sich war ihm auch gleichgültich. Des Menschen Duft konnte er hinreichend gut mit Surrogaten imitieren. Was er begehrte, war der Duft gewisser Menschen: jener äußerst seltenen Menschen nämlich, die Liebe inspirieren. Diese waren seine Opfer.
~ Patrick Süskind
When you spoke to her there wasn't any mystery. In herself she was all the explanation I felt she needed. And that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become.
~ Paul Scott