Quotes of Rare - somelinesforyou

“ There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ”

- Robert Half

“ Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. ”

- Josh Billings

“ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Capital isn't scarce; vision is. ”

- Sam Walton

“ So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ”

- Bette Midler

“ The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ Except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. ”

- Horace Benchley

“ I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. - As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ”

- Bible

“ The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ”

- Frederick W. Faber

“ It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. ”

- Dick Cavett

“ Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion. ”

- Unknown

“ It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. ”

- Saint Bernard

“ Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. ”

- Fred Allen

“ It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. ”

- Byron J. Langenfeld

“ I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. ”

- William F. Claire
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