Rare Quotes
1409 quotes by 1067 authors
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Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your…
— Rajneesh
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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
— Dean Koontz
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I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and…
— Cassandra Clare
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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us
— Charles Bukowski
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I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.
— Stephenie Meyer
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The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare…
— John Green
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Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good†government, it simply insures that it will work.…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
— Mark Twain
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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving…
— Galt Niederhoffer
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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is…
— Wallace Stegner
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[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for…
— Lionel Shriver
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I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too…
— Nicholas Sparks
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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Wretched unfair, it is,†he remarked. “Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside…
— Ilchi Lee
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He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
— Anthony Trollope
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
— Eric Hoffer
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