Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real… — Jo Walton
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can… — Billy Wilder
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet
There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China. — Deng Xiaoping
For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's… — Scarlett Thomas
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in… — Charles Ives
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. — Peter Thiel
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a… — Sara Gruen
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in… — Murray Gell-Mann
The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… — Carl Safina
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a… — Arthur Koestler
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by… — Blaise Pascal
I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the… — Dominick Dunne
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that… — Roger Scruton
To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless… — Kodo Sawaki
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. — Dick Costolo
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare. — Charlie Munger
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot… — Allen Tate

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