Rare Quotes - page 2

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. (Nicholas Sparks)
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
George Santayana
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. View quote
Margaret Drabble
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. View quote
Oscar Wilde
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. View quote
Douglas Adams
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! View quote
Anatole France
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel. View quote
Edward Young
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that. View quote
Hans Haacke
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. (Charles Bukowski)
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves. View quote
Arthur Miller
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. View quote
Martin Luther
Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. View quote
Ernie Kovacs
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. View quote
Pierre Loti
Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. View quote
Junot Diaz
I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads. View quote
Laura Prepon
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party. (Matthew Sweet)
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. View quote
Michael K. Simpson
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time. View quote
Sigourney Weaver
I think that testosterone is a rare poison. View quote
Germaine Greer