Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as… — Bill Watterson
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality. — Roland Barthes
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by… — John Stuart Mill
What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry… — Mark Nepo
If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. — Warren Buffett
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is… — Irving Penn
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic… — Albert Einstein
The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In… — Ken Wilber
Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutional ized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom --… — Ronald Reagan
I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was… — Kate Simon
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with… — Lord Acton
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. — Baruch Spinoza
Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit. — Robin Sharma
Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the… — Lesley Hazleton
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just… — Percival Everett
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller… — Percival Everett
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. — Mike Nichols
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever… — Gwendoline Christie
A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which… — Owen Gleiberman
Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out… — Maggie Shipstead
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement… — Cedric Price
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. — John Drinkwater
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all… — Eric Hoffer

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