Rare Quotes - page 7

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best. (Robin S. Sharma)
It is the rare society that does not abuse its artists. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved. View quote
Scott Cunningham
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then. View quote
Steven Johnson
Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin. View quote
Suzanne Somers
Honest communication is a rare thing. View quote
Taylor Sheridan
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. View quote
Tim Roth
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe. View quote
Irving Penn
Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder. View quote
Earl Derr Biggers
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. View quote
David Levithan
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting. (David Ogden Stiers)
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf. This made her rare. This made her precious. This made him...love her. View quote
J.R. Ward
And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me. And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to medium rare and then ate me! I really, really, really hope I haven't just given away the ending of this story. View quote
James Patterson
... she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me. View quote
Curtis Sittenfeld
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space. View quote
Ben Okri
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. View quote
Ann Brashares
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen. View quote
Ann Brashares
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much. (Travis Barker)
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. View quote
William Graham Sumner
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. View quote
James Earl Jones
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame. View quote
June Carter Cash
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines. View quote
Jennifer Lee