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Tag Name "Rare" (1015)

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Rare are the people who can capture a human being.
Kirsten Dunst
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]
Juvenal
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Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
Ovid
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Rare is he who will concede genius.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
Juvenal
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
Thomas Carlyle
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
Alice Duer Miller
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.
Catherynne M. Valente
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If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
Bill Gates
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Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Garrison Keillor
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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.
Ken Wilber
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A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.
Jostein Gaarder
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The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Robert Peel
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Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)
Ravi Ravindra
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Full stories are as rare as honesty.
Zadie Smith
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You tell Anderson Silva that I'm coming over and I'm kicking down his backdoor and patting his little lady on the ass and I'm telling her to make me a steak, medium-rare just how I like it.
Chael Sonnen
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We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.
Blanca Li
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
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Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.
Elif Batuman
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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
Khaled Hosseini
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One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
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