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Quotes About Rare

Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down to it, no matter where and when, peace, dead calm, wars, convulsions... so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them... shovelsful!... but hearts?... very rare!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The yacht kids had left us their bag of marshmallows. Pastel colors but full-sized, a rare combo. Jack was delighted. He roasted six at a time, his fingers getting so gooey I had to wash them for him in the lapping tidewater when he was done eating.
~ Lydia Millet
Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
and unruly. Adversaries were sometimes in T-shirts, eating watermelon or sharing a bottle of scotch. In rare cases
~ Malcolm Gladwell
if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: "I want to live a life like everybody else!" By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
Average is common. Excellence is rare.
~ Izey Victoria Odiase
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
~ Simone Weil
Si el amor persiste pese al dolor de las diferencias, hay que preservarlo como una joya rara
~ Amy Tan
I am like a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
~ Anais Nin
When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.
~ Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
~ Anais Nin
Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance
~ Andrew Carnegie
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
~ Ann Brashares
It was rare for things to be perfect and organized anyway, even with your best efforts. Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's pretty rare to find someone you actually like to be with in this world. There are a lot of annoying people out there.
~ Sarah Dessen
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
~ Scott Westerfeld
Never chase opportunities. Let it come to you by creating value and building rare skillsets.
~ Johannes Larsson
There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.
~ John Adair
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
~ John Astin
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
~ John B. Bogart
What's seldom is wonderful.
~ John Connolly
Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.
~ John Muir
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld