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Quotes About Rarity

Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.
~ Hilary Hahn
Nothing creates cool like scarcity.
~ Neil Blumenthal
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
~ Carla Bley
I want your opinion.? ?That,? Adrian said, ?is not something I hear a lot.?
~ Richelle Mead
lady who took it out once a year at the most. A terrific bargain.
~ Roald Dahl
Non dubito, quip titulus libri nostri raritate suâ quamplurimos alliciat ad legendum: inter quos nonnulli obliquæ opinionis, mente languidi, multi etiam maligni, et in ingenium nostrum ingrati accedent, qui temerariâ suâ ignorantiâ
~ Robert Browning
when there is trust and love. No one is bound. No one loses his or her will. No one becomes less. Both become more than they can be alone. But it is so rare, so beautiful when it happens.
~ Kim Harrison
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
~ Joseph Joubert
They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every thousand, every ten thousand years? Maybe we just haven't heard about them up to now because this very day is that once-in-a-thousand-years.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Dicen que hay unas flores que sólo se abren y florecen cada cien años. Y ¿por qué no han de haber otras que florezcan una vez cada mil e incluso cada diez mil años? Quizá no lo hayamos sabido por la simple razón de que este «una vez cada mil años» acontece precisamente hoy.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand years - or once every ten thousand years? Maybe there are and we just don't know it because today is itself that once-in-a-thousand-year moment.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Dicen que hay flores que sólo despuntan una vez cada cien años. ¿Y por qué no hay otras que florezcan cada mil o cada diez mil años? Tal vez hasta ahora no lo hayamos sabido por la sencilla razón de que esa vez-cada-mil-años toca precisamente hoy.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
They say there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why not suppose the existence of flowers that bloom only once a thousand years? We may have known nothing about them until now only because today is the "once in a thousand years"?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
That evolution should select for larger brains may seem to us like, well, a no-brainer. We are so enamoured of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to cerebral power, more must be better. But if that were the case, the feline family would also have produced cats who could do calculus, and frogs would by now have launched their own space programme. Why are giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom?
~ Yuval Noah Harari
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.
~ Zamyatin
Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization
~ Denise Brodey
True friend accepts you for who you are, with all your virtues and vices, and flaws and follies. True friend is not the one that stays with you constantly but never makes any noteworthy change in your life. True friend is the one who brings about million magical changes in your life in a matter of few moments. True friends are so rare and hard to find. Good luck in finding your True Friend!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Skulduggery took a small spool of thread from his pocket and started wrapping it around the door handles. "That'll hold?" Valkyrie asked sceptically. "This is Resolute Thread. The more pressure applied, the stronger it gets. It's very rare. They say it was made from the stomach lining of an emperor dragon, over 2000 years ago." "Was it?" "No, it's just really strong thread.
~ Derek Landy
That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
~ Laozi
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
~ Michael Eisner
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
~ Seth Godin
Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
~ Walt Disney Company, Mulan