Rare Quotes

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Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination. — Roger Ailes
Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you… — Neville Cardus
He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses… — Tony Dungy
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard… — Ernest Dimnet
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell… — Charles Dickens
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain. — Barbara De Angelis
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. — Anthony de Mello
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to… — Pablo Neruda
Vision is the Source and hope of life.Â The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of… — Myles Munroe
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something… — Elizabeth McCracken
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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… — Keenen Ivory Wayans
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory — Benoit Mandelbrot
Valor is common but great souls are rare. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships. — Lester Sumrall
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems… — John Berger
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives with the same… — Omer Bartov
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and… — Jean de la Bruyere
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. — Charles H. Brower

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