Rare Quotes

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

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.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

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.

As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

The American people have a right to know on the rare occasions in which their money is used to invest in private operations, if you will, take bets on capitalism, that is very well vetted, very well thought out and without political interference.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.