Rare Quotes

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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we… — Amby Burfoot
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at… — Alphonsus Liguori
Good women are rare too, none of them have come close — Drake
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition. — Andrew Carnegie
What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering? — May Sarton
The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for… — William J. Clinton
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it… — Andre Gide
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the… — W. S. Gilbert
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done. — Bill Moyers
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.… — Simone Weil
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well. — Bill Walton
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by… — Jonathan Ive
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. — Charles Spurgeon
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau

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