Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

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. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. Sight… — 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
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available — Victor Hugo
Excellent things are rare. — Plato
The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order… — George W. Bush
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and… — Ralph W. Moss
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game. — Howard Staunton
Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that… — Robin Sharma
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain -… — Kate Chopin
In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there… — Rajneesh
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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