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Quotes About Rarity

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
~ Arthur Erickson
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
~ Jane Austen
If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.
~ Marty Rubin
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.
~ Asher Roth
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179
~ William Shakespeare
Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
~ William Shakespeare
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
~ David Mitchell
Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ' said Carrot'What, in Ankh-Morpork?'Yes, sir.''We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value
~ Terry Pratchett
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
~ Earl Blaik
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.
~ Jeff Bauman
Never mind being first. If you want to count for something, be the last of your kind.
~ Jan Strnad
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.
~ Jason Jennings
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
~ E.M. Forster
When you see a book you want, buy it instantly because you may never find it again.
~ Edmund White
He was hailed with much cordiality by the group. The maid of honor, who was an old friend of Laddie's, unlimbered a candy box from under her arm and offered the collie a large and mushy and delectable bonbon. With outward gravity, but inward bliss, he accepted the gift daintily, and fell to munching it with infinite epicurean relish. Sweets were taboo for dogs, at The Place, as a rule. Lad loved them the more for their rarity.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
green emerald.
~ Alex Anderson
a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager. Accomplished and skilful managers can be hired by the truckload. Leaders are the rarest of commodities. So, here is what I learned about the character of one leader–the man who used to wear a jacket bearing the initials 'AF'.
~ Alex Ferguson
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.
~ Alex Flinn