Quotes About Rare

...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.

There are more chickens than a man can know in this world, but an unprovoked kindness is the rarest of birds.

Bible, and so the delivery of one of these prizes was a rare and noteworthy circumstance;

There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. But of course this was at rare intervals. Ferryboats used to lose valuable trips because their passengers grew old and died, waiting for us to get by.

Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.

A good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare—the entrance of visitors: lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very feeble and aged man; a fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair; and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter's wife.

How many people get this chance? And of those few, how many actually take it?

there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

It is a rare thing for me to meet anyone who takes an intelligent interest in such matters. People can find time for such trivialities as sport or society, and yet the beetles are overlooked.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.

Judecata independent? e un privilegiu rar.

Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one.

In those early amorphous years when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and Everything was Forever, Esthappen and Rahel thought of themselves together as Me, and separately, individually, as We or Us. As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities.

Awe, I discovered, was my favorite feeling. It was a rare experience, but when it happened, it was like an orgasm for the mind.

She was a rare psychotic-confessional-poet strain of salmonella.

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me. She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you.

Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.

While Egyptian speakers learned Greek, it was rare that anyone ventured in the opposite direction. To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.

I say "every so often" but it's more frequent than that.

Tailwinds are like smiles from beautiful women—rare and to be cherished.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.