Top 100 Best Rarest Quotes
#1. I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
Wendell Berry
#2. The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.
Thomas Hardy
#3. There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.
Martin Buber
#4. I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
Theophilus London
#5. The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.
Gregory Maguire
#6. She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.
Marcel Proust
#7. Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.
Robyn Schneider
#8. Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#9. If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
David Harsanyi
#10. An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas More
#11. Over the years he began displaying that rarest of intellectual gifts - the ability and willingness to change his mind and do it in an orderly, well-reasoned way.
Pat Conroy
#12. Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
#15. Only a fool would dream of riches when what is rarest are moments
Bruce Meyer
#16. Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent ... ; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told.
Chretien De Troyes
#17. Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.
Phyllis Schlafly
#18. There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.
Dwight L. Moody
#19. The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!
N.K. Jemisin
#20. Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.
J.R. Rim
#23. Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
Jean Genet
#24. It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something - anything - for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know.
Francine Prose
#25. The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
Lydia M. Child
#26. On rich soils only abundant harvests of produce for ordinary consumption grow.
On poor soils the most misshapen trees, and flowers of the rarest, the subtlest colours and scents are to be found.
Roger Giroux
#27. South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven for the rarest sight of Delhiites served with cherry.
Parul Wadhwa
#28. With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
#29. The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
Kedar Joshi
#30. Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean De La Bruyere
#31. It seems so odd to me, an odyssey
How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us
Its astonishing.
Asher Roth
#32. Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#33. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas.
Wilkie Collins
#34. All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
Gerald Massey
#35. But they would be offering Krishna Consciousness, the highest and rarest gift, and intelligent people would gradually appreciate this, even if at first they scoffed. By
Dinatarini Devi
#36. Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
Sydney J. Harris
#37. Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task ... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Walt Disney Company
#39. What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
Maury Yeston
#40. Isn't it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.
Susan Fletcher
#41. No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater
#43. Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#44. Honesty is the most talked about, the most desired but, at same time, one of the rarest qualities in present day world.
Abhishek Ratna
#45. God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
#47. Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith! ...
Henry David Thoreau
#48. Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#49. she allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed flickering at the edge of her mind: it was the rarest thing of all - a man whom she knew at once, and without any qualification, to be her equal.
Philip Pullman
#50. Both the Hopi and Zuni Indians, who have used the venom in purification rituals, assert that it effectively reduces the human soul to its rarest elements, stripping away all that is false, illusory, or fearful.
Nicholas Christopher
#51. It is a sad reflection ... that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
Alexander Crummell
#52. There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Baltasar Gracian
#53. We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.
Vladimir Nabokov
#54. Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.
Frank Bettger
#55. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton
#57. Kindness that is nothing special is the rarest and most honest.
Emily Ruskovich
#58. And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'
John Malkovich
#59. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
Walter Lippmann
#60. The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Mark Twain
#61. But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.
Virginia Woolf
#62. Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.
Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
#63. re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most useful resources ever discovered-- to provide a substitute for dirt --the cheapest and most widely available agricultural input imaginable.
David R. Montgomery
#65. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
#66. Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures - Alex
Anthony Burgess
#67. It is the rarest thing ... that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.
Anthony Doerr
#68. The golden langur is one of the world's rarest primates, noted for its expressive black face set off by a robe of dense golden fur.
Eric Dinerstein
#69. Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.
Virginia Woolf
#70. No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
Peter Travers
#71. Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
Adam Gopnik
#72. I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.
Alexandre Dumas
#73. Love is a transaction, at least of emotions in the rarest cases: you love to get something in return.
Gabriel Chevallier
#74. Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
William Hazlitt
#75. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.
Donna Lynn Hope
#78. The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage
Dennis Prager
#79. I, Lexi Anderson, am proud to say that I do, indeed, have a great personality.
And it's only a matter of time before the Beautiful People will be wishing they had great personalities, too.
Good luck with that, oh Beautiful Ones.
Because we Great Girls are the rarest breed.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#80. When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#81. One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings
#82. I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.
I.J. Parker
#83. The Hebrew Bible is the supreme example of that rarest of phenomena, a national literature of self-criticism. Other ancient civilisations recorded their victories. The Israelites recorded their failures. It is what the Mosaic and prophetic books are about.
Jonathan Sacks
#84. Self-awareness is the rarest power of all, precious and vulnerable to the highest degree, the supreme and generally fleeting achievement of a person.
Ernst F. Schumacher
#85. Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
Jef I. Richards
#86. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.
Pat Conroy
#87. Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.
Robert Motherwell
#88. Wallace, King and Sanders point out in Biology: The Science of Life (that rarest thing: a readable textbook),
Bill Bryson
#89. Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
Wilkie Collins
#90. There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
John Ruskin
#91. One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces ... in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces ...
Rebecca Harding Davis
#92. Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
George Stillman Hillard
#95. The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
Peter Drucker
#96. He had known the rarest of things -love, real love - he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests
Jennifer Donnelly
#97. An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
#98. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
#99. A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
David Halberstam
