Rare Quotes

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
- Fred Allen

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
- Juvenal

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless.
If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
- Michael Eisner

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
- Homer

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare.
In every case they are unique, poetic,
products of the heart.
- Arthur Erickson

If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau

The tendency of old age to the body,
say the physiologists,
is to form bone.
It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells

One of the most extraordinary things about being a
spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able
to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
- Andrew Cohen

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary,
the crew responds with spontaneous applause,
but that's very rare.
- Claudia Christian

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
- David Baker

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely
important in the ivory tower and the factory.
- Benoit Mandelbrot

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare -
and precious as a pearl.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

To be really great in little things,
to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life,
is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes,
so sound helps segue from one scene to another.
- Stephen Hopkins

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is,
compensates for the misery of being it.
- Margaret Drabble

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those
surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
- Georg Brandes

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
- Aldous Huxley

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
- Rene Descartes

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists.
But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the
rare instances where the term fits.
- Martin Scorsese

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds.
I had always had a perfect metabolism.
But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people,
except a very rare few who will always be thin.
- Suzanne Somers

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
- William Henry Moody

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is
revealed by the rare instances where the usual association
between song and morphology is disrupted.
- Peter R. Grant

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
- James Daly

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves
of the friendship of the many.
- James Whistler

No not at all...
it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again...
It was a pretty good run.
- Sela Ward

Great men are rare, poets are rarer,
but the great man who is a poet,
transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
- John Drinkwater

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw,
a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm,
a bit of a skull.
But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
- Donald Johanson

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
- Arnold Palmer

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
- Emily Dickinson

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's rare that I come across actors who are willing
to work as hard on the material as I am.
- Donnie Wahlberg

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there
is so much agreement about the goals.
- Mike Pence

There have been only rare moments in history where
individual histories were able to run their course
without wars or revolutions.
- Raymond Queneau

In most of history, societies have not been free.
It's a very rare society that is free.
The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
- Michael Novak

Television: A medium.
So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovacs

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak,
when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness,
cannot be explained at noon.
Yet it is part of the day's unity.
- Charles Ives

If you try to do that in pop music -
to play only rare show tunes,
for example - people don't come.
- Bobby Short

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological
condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East.
They get to Israel and just snap.
- Marc Maron

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy,
although it is getting more common.
- David R. Ellis

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
- Germaine Greer

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic
evidence are the ones that make it to court.
- Pat Brown

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting,
it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands
what more than half a dozen are about.
- E. T. Bell

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
- Rex Stout

I am a closet toy freak.
I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys -
some very rare stuff.
- Rick Springfield

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

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good.
You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond,
you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
- Keenen Ivory Wayans

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
- James Baldwin

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- Jean de La Fontaine

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
- Neal Stephenson

Everyone has talent.
What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to
the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
- Karen Horney

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison,
and to bear it is an art.
And to have that art is rare.
- Oriana Fallaci

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective,
reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
- Jodie Foster

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
- Keenen Ivory Wayans

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
- Joseph Roux

In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer,
I had the advantage of being the first one out.
- Frederick Douglass

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really,
really looked out for me and really encouraged all that.
And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.
- William Joyce

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
- Baruch Spinoza

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested
in things other than themselves.
- Alan Cumming

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
- Dick Cavett

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine
whether a book is good or bad;
for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other.
It is usually both.
- Robert Musil

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