Quotes About Rare

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All the books in the Imperial Library will be burned," he said. "That's rotten!" said Annie. "Indeed it is!" the scholar said quietly.

It is all but inevitable that we occupy a favoured location, one of the rare neighbourhoods where by-laws allow the emergence of intelligent life.' No anthropic principle needed.

What exactly does he look like? Like no other. There must be some way to describe him. He looks... to be honest... It was rare to find Davenport lost for words and he seemed annoyed by the fact. I have it, Fergins. He looks like one of those ancient Greek sculptures of a god, just before the Romans knocked off its arms and nose. There you have Davenport truly believing he was answering a question.

I've always expected parties to be exciting and brilliant, like some rare drink." She laughed; there was a note of sadness in it. "But I don't drink, either. That's just another symbol that doesn't mean what it was intended to mean." He was silent. She added, "Perhaps there's something that we have missed.

There was a time when I looked at the tragic mess they've made of this earth, and I wanted to cry out, to beg them to listen—I could teach them to live so much better than they did—but there was nobody to hear me, they had nothing to hear me with. . . . Intelligence? It is such a rare, precarious spark that flashes for a moment somewhere among men, and vanishes. One cannot tell its nature, or its future . . . or its death. . . .

Ese muchacho es vulnerable. Posee demasiada capacidad para el placer. ¿Qué hará en un mundo donde existen tan raras ocasiones de dicha?

While farce and tragedy have always been foils for each other, it is rare, she maintains, other than in works of Russian and southern literature, that they are superimposed one upon the other so that their effects are experienced simultaneously.

This is it, I'd say to them finally. The point of it all. To have that rare chance, reserved for very few, to bend history in a better direction.

To have that rare chance, reserved for very few, to bend history in a better direction.

I prefer to remain anomalous.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

You can't save the whales by eating whales, but paradoxically, you can help save rare, domesticated foods by eating them. They're kept alive by gardeners who have a taste for them, and farmers who know they'll be able to sell them. The consumer becomes a link in this conservation chain by seeking out the places where heirloom vegetables are sold, taking them home, whacking them up with knives, and learning to incorporate their exceptional tastes into personal and family expectations.

Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.

I was able to convince them that the Starling case is not, essentially, about extortion, kidnapping, decapitation or murder. It is about postage stamps.' 'Postage stamps?' 'More particularly about the forgery of rare postage stamps, which is fraud, our bailiwick.

Thomas Ross appears to have been something of a rarity: a socially conscious young man.

The fact that life arose early here gives us little confidence in the belief that life must be common elsewhere. It's important to emphasize the following point: the analysis doesn't show that life is rare. "Life is common" remains our best guess position; it's just that we can't be confident of the position.

The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Transition is Rare