Rare Quotes

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. (Thomas Carlyle)

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

Baruch Spinoza

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

Christina Aguilera

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

Yehudi Menuhin

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

François de La Rochefoucauld

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Henry David Thoreau

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Andrew Wiles

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. (Andrew Wiles)

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

James Baldwin

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Charles Lamb

Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delight to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Joseph Joubert

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

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

James Thurber

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Stephen Hawking

In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet. (Karen Blixen)

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Steve Jobs

The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

James McNeill Whistler

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

Madeleine Stowe

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