Quotes About Rare

The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the time to think of places that welcome everyone and don't charge any money for that warm embrace.

probably no one would have ever even heard of a yak if it hadn't been about the only animal that began with a y.

I'm also giggling, which I think I've done maybe never in my lifetime.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

Love Has No Color.... No Race.... Love Is Pure And Divine But Only A Little of Us Are Able To Preserve It's Purity.... Sadly, In This Digital World, Purity Is Rare To Find In Human....

She's like the rarest of jewels, too precious to be worn, and too valuable to tarnish.

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the "normal," particularly with "bell curve" methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud.

Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the normal, particularly with bell curve methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud.

Finally, I reckon that I am not immune to such an emotional defect. But I deal with it by having no access to information, except in rare circumstances. Again, I prefer to read poetry. If an event is important enough, it will find its way to my ears. I will return to this point in time.

One vicious attribute is that the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

Remember that for an event to be a Black Swan, it does not just have to be rare, or just wild; it has to be unexpected, has to lie outside our tunnel of possibilities. You must be a sucker for it.

the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

try to benefit from rare events, events that do not tend to repeat themselves frequently, but, accordingly, present a large payoff when they occur.

Drogo is obsessed and blinded by the possibility of an unlikely event;

Exactly. That's why it's so rare." The parrot arrives, flapping up from far below, and sits on the cash register. Seeing the register reminds me that I can't pay, and I tell the bartender so. "Not a problem," the bartender says. "We'll bill your insurance.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

amor es lo que pasa un año de cada diez

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Yes, the probability that five people in the same school or church or workplace will contract the same rare form of leukemia may be one in a million, but there are millions of schools and churches and workplaces