Quotes About Rare

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.

Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns.

But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days." -Finch

Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it

She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

And how would sirs like their steak?" "Rare," said Ford. "So rare a vet with some shock paddles could revive it.

The soul of the ordinary man and woman is full of good will; but good sense, logical intelligence, is too rare.

Serial murders are a bit like natural disasters: in the scheme of things they are quite rare, but when they happen they demand our attention. They interest us for several reasons, but especially because they are so dramatically threatening, and they profoundly challenge our sense of our own everyday safety. [Todd R. Clear, Foreword]

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.

This almost never happens, outside of the realm of scientific terminology (which is obviously a domain populated by sadists with no regard for language).

And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.

The Fourteenth Amendment was not only revolutionary in its own time. Birthright citizenship remains extremely rare even today. No Asian country grants it. No European country grants it. In fact, the United States is one of only a very few developed nations to recognize birthright citizenship (Canada is another). If anything, the trend is in the opposite direction. France eliminated birthright citizenship in 1993; Ireland, in 2005; New Zealand, in 2006.

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Deacon is one of those rare individuals," Jon began, trying to sound jaunty and failing, "whose heart takes the lead before his desire, and not the other way around.

Ma non esiste una qualità che non abbia un costo. Più bella e rara la qualità, più alto il costo

a clergyman I had come to think of as the Digital Divine, who lived nearby in Barnes, had decided to get rid of his enormous, and wonderful, collection of rare jazz records. He