If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender empowerment, he spoke through his poetry.
There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial problem with calling people by their real names.
It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
'Kanaa' is a rare opportunity; it's about women's cricket, and they've trusted me with this film. I trained for nearly four hours every day with three coaches.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.
I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.
You have, which is a rare thing, the ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. To at least give it the floor. Because it is the key, not only to consciousness, but to real growth.
Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.
To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate.
It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.
Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
After all the work I've done, I feel like I'm something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.
It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like
Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock
n roll’s skeleton.
Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.
I don't wish to be seen on television all the time. Instead, I prefer a five-minute appearance in a rare and challenging role for which I can be remembered for the next 50 years.
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
I don't think people can imagine a Liverpool team without Gerrard. It is like Raul at Real Madrid and Puyol at Barcelona. They are a rare breed, these types of players.
I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.
Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
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.
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
In ballet, it doesn't matter who you are. If you're good, it's such a rare thing, so unusual, that the talent will go wherever you want it to go.
But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.
I realize how rare it is for someone like me to reach this level. So I'm using my stature in basketball to help other people. I'm more than happy to do it.
I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.
When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.
Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.
It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.
The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
Moving from one team to another is part of the game now. It's rare for one guy to be on one team his whole career.
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