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Quotes About Rare

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.
~ Ross Perot
His was one of those rare organizations, endowed with an obedient intelligence like that of the dog;
~ Alexandre Dumas
I picked up a rare disease called conscience .... That can often turn fatal.
~ Alfred Bester
SHE WENT TO see Madame Cohen the next day at her shop at the end of the Rue des Rosiers. Each had sorrows she never discussed with anyone else. Their camaraderie was unusual and rare. Friendships were usually based on trivial matters, played out over games of cards and cups of coffee, but theirs was rooted in sterner stuff, catastrophe and survival.
~ Alice Hoffman
Nothing would ever be the same, but Hannah had taught her that there were times, rare as they were, when what was done could be undone.
~ Alice Hoffman
Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?' 'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.' Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?' 'Yes' He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There is nothing ordinary about you.
~ Joel Osteen
Mio caro, in questa banale faccenda ho nuovamente verificato che a questo mondo l'incomprensione e la pigrizia causano più errori dell'astuzia e della malvagità. O perlomeno, queste ultime sono di certo più rare.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Los malentendidos y la pereza quizá causan más extravíos en este mundo que la astucia y la perversidad. Al menos, estas dos últimas cosas ciertamente que son más raras
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.
~ Diane Keaton
[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.
~ Mervyn Peake
whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.
~ Ruth Sawyer
Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
~ Tom Hanks
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
~ E. B. White
A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.
~ E. C. Stedman
There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
El sentido común es algo tan raro que su aplicación asombra al mundo, y quienes tienen la habilidad de emplearlo son declarados genios. El genio es, para decir la verdad, un derivado del sentido común.
~ Eden Phillpotts
Reason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.
~ Edward Abbey
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?
~ Edward Abbey
Venus planet of love, rare as radium pure as platinum more precious than gold.
~ Edward Abbey
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
~ Anonymous
A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
~ Anonymous