Quotes About Rare

Te da una sensación muy rara eso de pensar que tu vida tiene un límite. Ya sé que es algo natural, pero nosotros vivimos sin pensar que son naturales las cosas que lo son.

He seems to have developed a rare, little-understood affliction called poikilothermism. The victim loses the normal mammalian ability to keep his body temperature constant, regardless of changes in the ambient temperature. His body assumes the temperature of its surroundings, as if he were a reptile or a fish.

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

As she read and reread the note scrawled in Janie's riotously looping hand, she understood that she was holding one of those rare objects brought into being by a hope you didn't know you still had.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

If Jace was gold, catching the light and attention, Alec was silver. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

Real demons are rare. Which is good. Particularly if you don't have the clearest conscience in the world.

Abductors were a highly skilled and rare breed of UGRR conductor.15

Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.

And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.

Why must you illuminate these cases, where enslaved people are not depicted in a dehumanized and stereotypical way? It's rare and exceptional." "Well, professor. You have answered for me. Because it is rare and exceptional.

We want to possess what they're not making any more, what not many others can get and what will distinguish us from others.

De ce oare fluviul geniului izbucne?te atât de rar ?i atât de rar se revars? în valuri puternice ?i v? cutremur? sufletul uimit?

We call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

I value it as a morsel of genuine history, a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care.

The only thing rare is time.

institutional self-reform is rare; the conscience is willing, but the culture is rough.

It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.