Top 1200 Rare Occasions Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It's very rare that you get that period of time to hang out with your best buddy and ride motorbikes.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.

It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.

I love dressing for different occasions and having dress codes. For me, it's such a fun thing to have a reason to think about dressing within restraints or codes or rules, so it's something I have fun with.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

I find the Aussies are great and just let you be. The odd time, somebody has something smart to say, but it's very rare.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.

What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

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.

It's a privilege to be a part of a show that provides a platform for promising artistes across the nation who come with a rare talents.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

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.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.

However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.

It's really rare that you find a designer who's willing to dress people who maybe present more masculine in their womenswear.

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

I don't want to big myself up, but goals like mine leave a mark on history because they're rare.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.