Quotes About Rare

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

It's hard to see your dad once in a blue moon.

I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.

I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Ormerod's discovery strongly implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy.

Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste

out there houses are rare as rocking horse turds.

those rare homes in which it's spoken with any regularity are likely under police surveillance.

But not for Joshua. Joshua had been steeped in violence for as long as he could remember. There were, no doubt, many other men who could do what he did. But it took a rare man to do it so well. One who combined physical ability, cold obsession, professional training and an absolute lack of remorse in one lethal package.

I was chopping vegetables in the kitchen when I heard voices outside our front door – a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.

His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would be mystified to discover.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

Rocky Hawkins has written a rare, fun and beautiful book. If you don't believe me, read it for yourself.

Holes of this sort are rare in New York City, where the earth is sealed beneath a layer of asphalt, and one can go for years without catching sight of actual dirt.

Perpetual celebrity—the kind where any mention of you will interest a significant percentage of the public until the day you die, even if that day comes decades after your last real contribution to the culture—is exceedingly rare, reserved for the likes of Muhammad Ali.

Innovation is always a product of individual innovators, a rare and dynamic breed not always appealing to the millions who depend on their creativity for their own comfort, health, and security.

Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.

The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.

A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.

There are apparently two types of successful soldiers. Those who get on by being unobtrusive and those who get on by being obtrusive. I am of the latter type and seem to be rare and unpopular: but it is my method. One has to choose a system and stick to it; people who are not themselves are nobody.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.

Pearl of great price.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.