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Quotes About Rare

His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.
~ Aldo Leopold
None of the three, it is true, had stored much hope in Padre Cristoforo's endeavor, since for a powerful man to desist from an act of aggression without being forced to, as a mere concession to unarmed prayers, was not only rare but unheard of.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
INTRODUCTION This is one untold story of an extremely rare adventure that happened in the world of Minecraft. It is well documented in the "Top secret archived records of Minecraft", also known as "X-Files". They are not accessible to anyone. This adventure is known as "The Battle of Legends". It's one of the greatest adventures in the world of Minecraft.
~ Alex Anderson
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
~ Anne Sullivan
Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
You don't find a 6-foot-5 pitcher with the athleticism and coordination I have all that often.
~ Pat Connaughton
Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.
~ Tim Wakefield
When I made my first film I was 25 years old, and that's pretty rare. Being so young my experience and the thing that I wanted to talk about was teenagehood, plus in France we have that strong tradition of the coming-of-age story being made as your first film.
~ Celine Sciamma
It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.
~ Anjelica Huston
It's not often that scripts come across our desks that are written so poetic and so honest from our perspective, as a black man and a black woman in Hollywood.
~ Rob Morgan
Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.
~ Mike Posner
When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.
~ Roscoe Mitchell
My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.
~ Brian Krzanich
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
~ Nick Sagan
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~ Edward Thorndike
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
~ Anthony Fauci
I read the title out loud: 'A Wrinkle in Time'. And then I smiled at Richard. 'It's a first edition,' Richard said.
~ Rebecca Stead
It was a rare and therefore heartening event in a China that had become perhaps not inured to defeat but well acquainted with it, and with the human devastation that it brought with it.
~ Richard Bernstein
A slightly longer answer is that people will need nudges for decisions that are difficult and rare, for which they do not get prompt feedback, and when they have trouble translating aspects of the situation into terms that they can easily understand. In
~ Richard H. Thaler
It's a rare week when we dead-to-be don't surrender a few more minutes of our souls to the overflowing archives.
~ Richard Powers
At one in a million, there are roughly ten million of them in the Milky Way alone.
~ Richard Powers
Perhaps that's why faith is so rare and religion so widespread: because religion is very often a means to maintain our familiar image of God, even when it's pathological and destructive. We feel better with what we know, even when it does us in.
~ Richard Rohr
You must forgive my Hunters if they do not welcome you, Artemis said. It is very rare that we would have boys in this camp. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp… She looked at Zoe. Which one was it? That boy in Colorado, Zoe said. You turned him into a jackalope. Ah, yes. Artemis nodded, satisfied. I enjoy making jackalopes.
~ Rick Riordan