So Rare Quotes

#1. Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of the poor saps muddling through this life?

Lynda Sandoval

#2. Moreover, if we could show, on general logical grounds, that the scientific quest is likely to succeed, one could not understand why anything like success has been so rare in the long history of human endeavours to know more about our world.

Karl R. Popper

#3. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

Rodney Atkins

#4. Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

Anita Roddick

#5. Then there were harebells, tiny lanterns, cream white and almost sinful looking, and these were so rare and magical that a child, finding one, felt singled out and special all day long.

John Steinbeck

#6. The most elusive element of all, however, appears to be francium28, which is so rare that it is thought that our entire planet may contain, at any given moment, fewer than twenty francium atoms.

Bill Bryson

#7. Ethan possessed a skill set that combined hot, bad-boy sex god with mannerly, romantic gentleman; something so rare and captivating, I didn't have a chance at resisting the pull.

Raine Miller

#8. It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

Rachel Tucker

#9. It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.

Alex Ebert

#10. In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Theodore Parker

#11. Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Gwendoline Christie

#12. We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

Larry Smith

#13. I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion - a phenomenon so rare that I would walk any day ten miles to observe it.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Mark Twain

#15. If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.

Carey Mulligan

#16. Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Donna Lynn Hope

#17. Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

Sam Altman

#18. Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

Guy De Maupassant

#19. Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Giacomo Leopardi

#20. To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Hansen's disease" - that's the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy - "Hansen's disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy

Lou Dobbs

#22. If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Jeffrey Overstreet

#23. The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

Charles M. Schwab

#24. Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Matt Groening

#25. Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so.

Louise Penny

#26. He said he'll be there. And he did. Stuff like this is so rare.

Sarvesh Jain

#27. I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Mike Nichols

#28. If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

Mary Doria Russell

#29. Nothing is so rare as a collection of really intelligent short stories.

Morley, Christopher

#30. Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)

Matt Ridley

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

James Earl Jones

#32. 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

#33. The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#34. We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Blaise Pascal

#35. Nothing is so rare as a man who gets everything he wants in life,

Robert J. Crane

#36. It is so rare ... to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

Hector Berlioz

#37. You are beautiful! Like the dew on rose petals, your beauty glistens and shines. Like the raindrops on eyelids, your beauty, forever defined. For those that can see you, they find beauty so rare. For those that receive you, find love in your care. Forever beautiful, Yes you are. You are beautiful!

Lorna Jackie Wilson

#38. My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#39. It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

Tom Hiddleston

#40. Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

Charles De Saint-Evremond

#41. I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.

Joseph Conrad

#42. Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

Rick Riordan

#43. Beauty is so rare a th
Sing a new song
Real
Music
A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A
Visiting card
- from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]

Jack Spicer

#44. To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#45. I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world.

Bauvard

#46. It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#47. I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams. I shall be dreaming of you all night, a whole week, a whole year.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#48. It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted.

Mickey Sumner

#49. It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role.

Chris Pine

#50. Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it.

David Henry Hwang

#51. Perfect beauty is so rare, its effect so magical!

Anna Katharine Green

#52. The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.

Marie Osmond

#53. Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

Clarence Day

#54. The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

Ralph W. Moss

#55. Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. Well, I know what you feel for Jeb. And it's simple and pure. You two have been friends since the day you met. And it grew into something more. That's a tangible thing, Butterfly. And so rare. The best kind of love.

A.G. Howard

#57. A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Emily Dickinson

#59. Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Andre Gide

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

Anais Nin

#61. The day wasn't exactly my own
since I checked
and found it on a public calendar.
Tripping over many pairs of legs
as I walked down the park
I also learned my lust
was not so rare a masterpiece.

Leonard Cohen

#62. It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

Emily Rose

#63. An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

Moira Kelly

#64. I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

Diablo Cody

#65. To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

Ethan Hawke

#66. ... You proved to value love and care
Over the riches of your world
Despite your haughtiness, so rare,
And cruelty and blood, so cold. ...
... And you have shown
Your love for him deserves to be
And we return you to your throne,
Vampire Queen you used to be. ...

Tatyana K. Varenko

#67. Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

Karl Popper

#68. It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Claude Monet

#69. This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.

Wilbur Smith

#70. I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

Ethel M. Dell

#71. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

#72. To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Gertrude Stein

#73. 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

#74. I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

Ellen Page

#75. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

#76. She examined with curious detachment - so rare for her to feel anything these days - and discovered that what she felt was unease.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#77. Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

PZ Myers

#78. To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Jim Parsons

#79. When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.

Anais Nin

#80. Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you're not sure you'll make it to second base. You've let go of one thing and haven't yet latched into another. Most of us choose the security of first base.

Richard Rohr

#81. Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.

Chris Matakas

#82. A falling star is actually on fire as it enters the atmosphere, so if I were to try and catch one, I'm pretty sure there would be some pain involved. Though, I would suppose some pain would be worth it to find something so rare.

Sadie Grubor

#83. Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

#84. Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

L.M. Montgomery

#85. Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Debasish Mridha

#86. That's so rare. Wanting to feel safe doesn't mean I'm weak or can't take care of myself.

Katherine Locke

#87. I don't think anyone can understand what's happening. Something like this is so rare. It's a mix of chance and coincidence. You wake up one day and you're suddenly a star.. Really weird. All of a sudden everyone knows who you are while you haven't changed one bit

Robert Pattinson

#88. It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

Ally Carter

#89. The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

Charlie Munger

#90. Maybe I should drive," Troy said. "She knows what she's doing," Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. "What?" "The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.

Ilona Andrews

#91. It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

Daniel Handler

#92. Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.

Emil Cioran

#93. It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

Matt Bomer

#94. It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

Drew Goddard

#95. What we desire in our hearts, Arathan, and what must be ... well, that is a rare embrace, so rare you're likely to never know it. You have lived that truth. I have no promises to make you. I cannot say what awaits you, but you are now in your year and the time has come for you to make your life.

Steven Erikson

#96. When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Salma Hayek

#97. Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part.

Nikki Rowe

#98. Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Patrick Lencioni

#99. No purchase is so urgent, no bargain so rare, that you don't have time to research it thoroughly, despite what they might have you believe. This applies, in particular, to infomercials that urge you to 'Call now, while supplies last,' or 'Call in the next 10 minutes for a free gift.'

Jean Chatzky

#100. Never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.

Aldo Leopold