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Quotes About Rare

In a hundred years they may both be sciences. Fine. But today a person who learns the rules of art well is a little rarer than the person who learns the rules of science. Also
~ Samuel R. Delany
It was a miracle of rare device,A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.
~ Pamela Ribon
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.
~ Ronald Reagan
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
~ John Lahr
she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to their children later. And that for her part she would have had it hidden, had that late summer evening buried and burned to ashes.
~ Marguerite Duras
Yes, she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something the ought to save from oblivion to describe to their children later. And that for her part she would have had it hidden, had that late summer evening buried and burned to ashes.
~ Marguerite Duras
Practicaba en secreto una vida austera de la que nadie tenía idea. Pero el largo aprendizaje del deber estoico no lo había endurecido en una actitud de falsa sabiduría; era demasiado fino como para no haberse apercibido de que los extremos de la virtud se asemejan a los del amor en que su mérito proviene precisamente de su rareza, de su condición de obra maestra única, de hermoso exceso.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Without the test of heat, no metal proves its strength; without the test of life, no love can prove its worth. Rare is the love that survives the tests of the life she knew, but the pain from loves that failed those tests could fill more than one lifetime.
~ Marianne K. Martin
Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Porque a felicidade era temporária, individual, excepcionalmente dual, raríssimas vezes tripartida e nunca coletiva, municipal.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Lo màs importante es la verdad, que siempre es arte y en cambio la mentira no, o sòlo rara vez
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Love is this elusive bird, he said. You're the lifelong bird-watcher, looking for this rare red-plumed quail people spend entire lives trying to see for three seconds in a cherry tree on a mountaintop in Japan. You're mistaking love for perfection, I said. Real love when it's there? It's just there. It's a metal folding chair.
~ Marisha Pessl
The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.
~ Mark Driscoll
A loro piace stare da soli e li incontro molto raramente, perché sono come gli okapi nella giungla del Congo, una specie di antilope, timidissima e rara. E posso andare ovunque nel mondo e so che nessuno mi rivolgerà la parola o mi toccherà o mi farà domande.
~ Mark Haddon
But today you are precious and rare and awake. It ushers us into grateful living. It makes hesitation useless. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
~ Mark Nepo
I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.
~ Anthony Burgess
Koltuk alt?nda kitaplar ta??d???n? görüyorum kardeÅŸim. Bugünlerde hâlâ kitap okuyan birine rastlamak gerçekten nadide bir zevk kardeÅŸim.
~ Anthony Burgess
He delayed entry for a brief period, pressing the edge of the door against his head, the other side of which touched the wall: rigid, as if imprisoned in a cruel trap specially designed to catch him and his like: some ingenious snare, savage in mechanism, though at the same time calculated to preserve from injury the skin of such rare creatures.
~ Anthony Powell
La verilitá, he thought, hardness of stone, heat of fires well banked. This man should never be a monk, nonetheless… Julian paused and chided himself. "Tuttavia e realmente dedicato." Dedication, a rare and wondrous quality, one he himself had lost during the stultifying years of Court life.
~ Anya Seton
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
One's first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle