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Quotes About Rare

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
~ John Ruskin
Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.
~ Eric Hoffer
I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
~ Scott Ian
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
~ Josh Billings
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
~ Charles H. Brower
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
~ Josh Billings
Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,
~ Emily Dickinson
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
~ David Mitchell
This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.
~ Jeremy Begbie
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
~ Francoise Sagan
Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
~ Jaclyn Smith
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
~ Ernie Kovacs
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
~ Epictetus
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
~ Baruch Spinoza
But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.
~ Jeff Bauman
Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective."
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
perfect information is a luxury you can rarely afford. All you can do is make the best decision with whatever imperfect information you do have.
~ Jason Fry
Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Love as a continuous state is as yet very rare — as rare as conscious human beings.
~ Eckhart Tolle
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde, In this delightful land of Faery, Are so exceeding spacious and wyde, And sprinckled with such sweet variety, Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye, That I nigh rauisht with rare thoughts delight, My tedious trauell doe forget thereby; And when I gin to feele decay of might, It strength to me supplies and chears my dulled spright.
~ Edmund Spenser