Rare Quotes - page 14

Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere... (Dean Acheson)
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. View quote
Frederick Douglass
On the subject of dedication to a craft, in addition talent, it was, and especially the singing, were so original, so powerful, and so accomplished, that the tragedy of his loss, after making only the one record (though a flood of demos and live recordings was released in his wake), seemed ever more poignant. It was clear to me that Jeff Buckley had been one of the few Great Ones, a one-in-a-billion talent, a true voice of his generation, and at thirty, he had hardly begun. Whatever is left behind in the passing of a rare talent, so much is always lost. View quote
Jeff Buckley
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. View quote
Tom Wolfe
This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn't understand what real badness was. View quote
Orson Scott Card
We might as well have a cup of tea,' he said, and we noisily marched over the hollow boards of the glass-covered bridge, down the stairs to Platform Four. We entered the filthy Gothic tea-room and Everett ordered. The serving-woman served us with tired distain; she treated her customers like a dull and endless film that could only, with order and money, make a very rare stereoscopic contact with her real though duller world. Everett took me to a table and began to talk sadly but eagerly. View quote
Anthony Burgess
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. View quote
Raymond Queneau
I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
...She had the rare ability to be exactly what people needed when she was with them and yet still remain true to herself. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Disgusting as he usually was, on rare occasions he showed flashes of stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard. (Hunter S. Thompson)
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
It is a rare man who notices a handsome woman. View quote
David Gemmell
Fortune, which had never forsaken him in his lifetime, favored the King of Sweden even in his death, with the rare privilege of falling in the fullness of his glory and an untarnished fame. By a timely death, his protecting genius rescued him from the inevitable fate of man - that of forgetting moderation in the intoxication of success, and justice in the plenitude of power. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity! View quote
Irene Dunne
I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole. View quote
Kate Chopin
The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. View quote
Dale Carnegie
[O]f that scientifically practical skill which produces the greatest effect with the least possible expenditure of material and work, the instances are comparatively rare. In too many cases we see the strength and the stability which ought to be given by the skilful arrangement of the parts of a structure supplied by means of clumsy massiveness, and of lavish expenditure of material, labour, and money; and the evil is increased by a perversion of the public taste, which causes works to be admired, not in proportion to their fitness for their purposes, or to the skill evinced in attaining that fitness, but in proportion to their size and cost. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. (Tracy Chevalier)
A rare event will be overweighted if it specifically attracts attention. [...] And when there is no overweighting, there will be neglect. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
On the very rare occasion when they don't all jump up out of their seats I'm always mortified. View quote
Elaine Paige
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. View quote
Jodi Picoult