Quotes About Rare

W.P.A. Guides to the States, all forty-eight volumes of them. I have all of them, and some are very rare. If I remember correctly, North Dakota printed only eight hundred copies and South Dakota about five hundred. The complete set comprises the most comprehensive account of the United States ever got together, and nothing since has even approached it.

In her rare moods of liberation she held for him the danger that she would disclose great riches within herself, showing him the depths of loss frozen over by their marriage.

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them...

Be like a diamond; precious and rare, not like a stone that is found everywhere.

Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning you're something people don't see that often. Remember that.

You have a lovely soul, of a rare quality, an artist's nature, don't ever let it go without what it needs.

You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist's nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.

That spark of new creation, the new phrase that genuinely surprises, the act that bears the impress of a live consciousness: these are astonishingly rare. Human beings are everywhere overcome by rituals and dead language, by threadbare notions about what is real.

Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

It was one of those rare occasions when my low expectations of others went unfulfilled.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

A lot of poets published their own work then; unlike novels, poetry was short, and therefore cheap to do. We had to print each poem separately, and then disassemble it, as there were not enough a's for the whole book; the cover was done with a lino-block. We printed 250 copies, and sold them through bookstores, for 50 cents each. They now go in the rare book trade for eighteen hundred dollars a pop. Wish I'd kept some.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.