Top 1200 Rare Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

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

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

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

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

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

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

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

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

I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.

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.

It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

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

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.

Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. "Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes." "Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person." "Well, you look like a person." "No it's all done with mirrors, trust me!"

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

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

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

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.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

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

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

... 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal is achieved, but the person who reaches it is not the same person who dreamed it. The goal was static, but the person's identity was dynamic.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

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

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.

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

I feel like it's extremely rare to find a female who's bisexual and not either lesbian or straight on television shows.

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

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

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.

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

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.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.