Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… — Ben Okri
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and… — Jasper Fforde
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… — Mark Helprin
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then… — Robert Henri
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it,… — Mortimer Adler
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes… — Anais Nin
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the… — Mark Twain
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. — Dean Koontz
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to… — W. Somerset Maugham
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is?… — Ann Brashares
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different… — Hunter S. Thompson
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near… — Charles Bukowski
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after… — Libba Bray
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now… — Ayn Rand
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. — Patrick Ness
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well. — Diana Gabaldon
And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that… — Kim Harrison
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. — Neil Gaiman
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled… — Harmony Korine
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the… — Rick Riordan
Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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