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Quotes About Rare

I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.
~ Jincy Willett
For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.
~ Joanne Harris
You are rare like a diamond, beautiful like a goddess and pure like an angel. I can't tell you how blessed I am to have a mother like you. Happy Birthday to you, dear Mom.
~ Unknown
Never regret for being faithful and honest as these are the rare qualities and are not found easily these days.
~ Unknown
The best people seldom give you the best advice.
~ Unknown
Men: If you have a girl that loves you and who will always be there for you, please dont lose her cause girls like her are the hardest things to find on this earth.
~ Unknown
For example, grown men who sneer at the idea of unicorns will tearfully testify to the existence of an even rarer, more mythical species. Found only in remote ports of call and the darkest, deepest reaches of the most insalubrious taverns, this is the prostitute in whose chest beats the proverbial heart of gold. Let me assure you, if there is one part of a prostitute that is made of gold, it is not her heart.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
An annual report that claims value-added, as a benefit to a community or to a society, is rare.
~ W. Edwards Deming
But once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue.
~ W.H. Auden
The Yankees lose so seldom, you have to celebrate every single time.
~ Unknown
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
~ Mark Haddon
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
~ Claude Monet
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
~ Peter Thiel
Courage is the rarest of all good traits
~ Dennis Prager
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
~ Raymond Pettibon
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
~ Philip Yancey
common sense is as rare as genius,—is the basis of genius, and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;—
~ Phillip Lopate
And therefore he must look about him and see who is valiant, who is high-minded, who is wise, who is wealthy; happy man, he is the enemy of them all, and must seek occasion against them whether he will or no, until he has made a purgation of the State. Yes, he said, and a rare purgation. Yes, I said, not the sort of purgation which the physicians make of the body; for they take away the worse and leave the better part, but he does the reverse. If
~ Plato
The very good and the very wicked are both quite rare, and that most men are between those extremes.
~ Plato
There are two wolves inside of you, Glaucon. Anyone can have an alpha-beta pair; rarer are the alpha-alpha and beta-beta ones. Most precious of all are those who have stepped out of the Cave; the philosopher-kings who may rule society: the sigma-alpha pair.
~ Plato
Archimedes taught that of all the five elements, quintessence is the most rare, the most valuable, the one that transmutes the ordinary into the extraordinary. We are quintessence. It's a divine gift, and like all gifts, we must use it for the Library's greater glory.
~ Rachel Caine
But on my worst days, which are rare and of which this is one, I can get down so low that the bottom seems to be where I belong. I don't even want to look for a way up. I suppose surrender to sadness is a sin, though my current sadness is not a black depression but is instead a sorrow like a long moody twilight.
~ Dean Koontz
Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.
~ Dean Koontz
On those rare occasions when he is arrested, charges are quietly dropped
~ Dean Koontz