Rare Quotes

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Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and… — Charles de Saint-Evremond
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about… — Joseph McCabe
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener.… — Will Oldham
Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find… — Peter Adamson
A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my… — Niall Horan
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. — Tim Roth
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. — Patrick Lencioni
I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it… — Elizabeth Hurley
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world… — Irving Penn
Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up! — David Baldacci
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare… — Malcolm Gladwell
Christians are rare people on earth. — Martin Luther
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford. — Assata Shakur
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the… — Baruch Spinoza
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and… — Vissarion Belinsky
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Ask any guy if sex is important in a relationship and the one who says no is lying. I just haven't met that guy yet.… — Steve Harvey
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only… — Giorgio de Chirico

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