Rare Combination Quotes

#1. That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Shimon Peres

#2. Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

Larry Dossey

#3. It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

Will.i.am

#4. Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.

Roger Ailes

#5. An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!

Steve Crocker

#6. "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.

Emmanuelle Bercot

#7. Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.

Joanna Macy

#8. Clara was that rare combination: she was sensible and sensitive.

Louise Penny

#9. You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Octavia Butler

#10. TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Hubie Brown

#11. I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. She had the rare combination of being quiet and popular, a code that made her intimidating to younger, fashionable girls and mysterious to older, confident boys.

Marina Keegan

#13. Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Petronius

#14. Beauty and earthy common sense were a rare combination, yet he doubted she was even aware she possessed it. By

Nicholas Sparks

#15. This is music that will disturb your imagination and
delight your heart-a rare combination.

Jeremy Begbie

#16. Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

Gautama Buddha

#17. Truth: I realised there is no escaping reality but dreaming changes the perception of what it was to what it can become
C'mon now dream on dream big dream slow dream bright
Let your dreams flow let them take flight
Only your dreams alone can and will always show you the light

Lebogang Lynx Bopape

#18. Laurent's fair skin and blue eyes were a combination that was rare in Patras, rarer in Akielos, and a particular weakness of Damen's.

C.S. Pacat

#19. I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up.

Suzanne Shaw

#20. And the combination is rare.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.

Chris Gethard

#22. Our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Rosario Ferre

#23. History would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

Alexandre Dumas

#25. Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

Ann Sothern

#26. The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

Mary Russell Mitford

#27. This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#28. Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

Conor Oberst

#29. I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

Katharine Hepburn

#30. Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.

Robert Carroll

#31. Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.

Georgette Heyer

#32. Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

Albert Einstein

#33. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.

Boyd K. Packer