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Quotes About Rare

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.
~ James Russell Lowell
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
~ Cicero
Then you can investigate me over dinner. He took her arm, lifting a brow as she stiffened. I'd think a woman who'd fight for a candy bar would appreciate a two-inch fillet, medium rare. Steak? She struggled not to drool. Real steak, from a cow? A smile curved his lips. Just flown in from Montana. The steak, not the cow.
~ J.D. Robb
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf. This made her rare. This made her precious. This made him...love her.
~ J.R. Ward
the loneliness…the "inexpressibly delicious sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they're like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at…
~ Jack Kerouac
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
~ Jack London
I have type AB- blood, which is the rarest blood type. It's less than 1 percent of the whole population of the world, and it means that you don't have as many digestive enzymes.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.
~ Rhianna Pratchett
I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole, and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth
~ William Shakespeare
I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.
~ Donald Hall
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
~ Petronius
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
~ Homer
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
~ George Sarton
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.
~ Dan Brown
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
~ Plutarch
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
~ Petronius
Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.
~ Deepak Chopra
Genius, Layton said, is "the ability—a very rare ability—to see things as they actually are. You are not fooled.
~ Sylvie Simmons
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
When Janice had spoken of the strength she had as an afflicted person, her message was rare, but now that she's eyeless, her message is commonplace.
~ Ted Chiang
Death is uncommon, fortunately, because we are durable, and fatal mishaps are rare, but it makes difficult the study of anatomy, especially since many of the accidents serious enough to cause death leave the deceased's remains too damaged for study.
~ Ted Chiang
Once in awhile, for a special occasion, I get really dressed up, but that kind of an occasion doesn't happen very often. So I don't really need much besides jeans.
~ Joey Heatherton