Quotes About Rare

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.

Are you always this honest?" "Almost never

When you hear clip-clop-clip outside your window in most cases the sound will be made by a horse, but once in a while (rarely), a zebra will be responsible for the sound.

Jack as "something of a rare species" in a nation "steeped in corruption.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue

Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.

These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Only Once In Your Life

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

What is a culture? A culture is what approves or disapproves of the actions in its midst. Yet how rare for approval to be unanimous.

Andrew Mauboussin and Michael Mauboussin came up with this pretty comprehensive list of these types of terms for a survey they conducted: Almost always More often than not Serious possibility Almost certainly Never Slam dunk Always Not often Unlikely Certainly Often Usually Frequently Possibly With high probability Likely Probably With low probability Maybe Rarely With moderate probability Might happen Real possibility

It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again