Rarer Quotes

64 quotes by 57 authors

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. — Juvenal
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and… — Enid Bagnold
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts… — Rupert Brooke
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings
Good advice is rarer than rubies. — Salman Rushdie
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit… — Martin Buber
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body. — Owen Wilson
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… — Gilles Deleuze
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's… — Margaret Fuller
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made… — Dick Clark
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical… — Henry A. Kissinger
That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business.… — Phil Dusenberry
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort… — Malcolm Gladwell
A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men. — William Shakespeare

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