Quotes About The Rarest Thing

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. It is the rarest thing ... that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.

Anthony Doerr

#5. The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Mark Twain

#6. 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

#7. An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Andre Gide

#8. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Wallace, King and Sanders point out in Biology: The Science of Life (that rarest thing: a readable textbook),

Bill Bryson

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. It seems so odd to me, an odyssey
How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us
Its astonishing.

Asher Roth

#16. 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

#17. Human life can be liken to that of a flower, its beautiful when it blooms, though yours may delay but when it blooms, it will be the rarest and the most beautiful of all.

Amenorhu Kwaku

#18. Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

Ursula Nordstrom

#19. That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.

William Pene Du Bois

#20. Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

John Lahr

#21. Let me absorb this thing. Let me try to understand it without private barriers. When I have understood what you are saying, only then will I subject it to my own scrutiny and my own criticism This is the finest of all critical approaches and the rarest.

John Steinbeck

#22. It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

Brian W. Aldiss

#23. Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.

Nancy Thayer