Quotes About Rare

There is a popular saying, "More rare than pine is the smell of pining"—which is rare indeed, for there are few pine trees in this part of the Ozarks.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

flexibility of the self was the achievement of a rare maturity

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently used smile of the courtesan or the politician. It was the strange, rare smile which rises from the deep, dark pit, deeper than a well, deep as a mine, that is within them.

Happiness in an intelligent person is the rarest thing I know.

Legrand shares with his predecessor that rare ability to joke in music just as his librettist jokes in words. The composer has in fact termed Amour "an opéra-bouffe"—Offenbach's own form.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

The one thing an MBO system should provide par excellence is focus. This can only happen if we keep the number of objectives small. In practice, this is rare, and here, as elsewhere, we fall victim to our inability to say "no"—in this case, to too many objectives.

And, in the red firelight, I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

plural n. (usually the DTs) INFORMAL delirium tremens. mid 19th century: abbreviation, originally in the singular form DT (now rare).

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare.' The most effective way to make something 'rare' is to make it illegal.

You don't get to make Westerns every day.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

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

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

They're hard to come by, good producers.