Top 31 Rare Words Quotes
#1. We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#3. He delighted in writing, in the joinery and embellishment of his sentences, in the consciousness of high rare virtue when every word had been used in its purest and most precise sense, in the kitten games of syntax and rhetoric. Words could do anything except generate their own meaning.
Evelyn Waugh
#4. I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.
Gavin Maxwell
#5. The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.
James Lipton
#6. Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.
Edith Wharton
#7. Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Frederick William Faber
#8. For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.
Joanne Harris
#9. The rare derpicus man is know to live near the himalayas, in a cave made purely of dead weevils. His native tounge is unknown, but what I've translated contains a grat amount of the words, "pootis, derp, poop, and nnnnyyyyaaaaannnn!
John Nichol
#10. Her marble tears run down her marble face.
A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.
Who has no words to say.
Whose shadow mind is burning
as he sits watching her hands
and thinks how rare!
to see a Roman
talk
with no gestures at all.
Anne Carson
#11. You know who you are, he said-
that intimidates boys but oneday a man will come along and value that exact part in you.
- Wise words from my best friend.
Nikki Rowe
#12. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
Samuel Johnson
#13. I'd prefer a debriefing by the professional," Matthias said. "Rather than one of the idiot's exhausting, million-words-in-one-breath babbling explanations." "Hey," I said. "That is a rare talent." "Maybe your only talent.
A&E Kirk
#14. An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
Agnes Repplier
#15. His words are heavy with rare things: care and possibility.
Erika Swyler
#16. It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.
Jonathan Tropper
#17. Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#19. Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;
behind our reckless ones, bombs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.
Richard Flanagan
#21. I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.
Robert Reed
#22. When your heart is full of kindness, mind is full of love, words are healing and compassionate, hands are extended for care, you are the purest temple, you are great and rare.
Debasish Mridha
#23. In other words, being born with a certain ability does not mean we are obliged to use it, and in rare cases, we are obliged not to. All
Ransom Riggs
#24. I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.
Nikki Rowe
#25. Woe is me!
The winged words on which my soul would pierce
Into the heights of love's rare universe,
Are chains of lead around its flight of fire
I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#26. The great and rare mystics of the past ... were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.
Ken Wilber
#27. His words were rare, full conversations with him even rarer, as if Parker were one of his students that he did not want to indulge with conversation after class.
Abby Slovin
#28. Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
James A. Baldwin
#29. FIRST MORAL
Good manners are not easy
They need a little care,
But when we least expect it
Bring rewards both rich and rare.
SECOND MORAL
Brute force or bribes of diamonds
Bend others to your will,
But gentle words have greater power
And gain more conquests still.
Charles Perrault
#30. To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. And
Michel De Montaigne
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