rare Quotes

“Park touched her hands like they were something rare and precious, like her fingers were intimately connected to the rest of her body. Which, of course, they were. It was hard to explain. He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.”

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

“But for now, let’s go back to the places in the world where we most need transparency and so rarely have it.”

“You have caused me to lose my temper: a thing that has hardly ever happened to me before.”

“Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious circumstance, is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of man.”

“No one she knew had seen a can of peaches in years. She looked at the other one. It was just as amazing- ‘Creamed Corn,’ it said.”

“A born king is a very rare being.”

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“We were strange in love her and I too wild to last too rare to die.”

The bear puffed out its chest. “I’m a very rare sort of bear,” he replied importantly. “There aren’t many of us left where I come from.”

“It was rare indeed that anyone could get a ball past him.”

“But the dresses must serve another purpose now. Would they bring enough to pay her passage on a ship? Fine cloth like this was rare in Connecticut. In many families, she had learned, one dress such as these would be handed down through three generations as a cherished possession.”

“Exploring places and inventing things can be very exciting indeed, but it is only very seldom that, in your explorations, you discover a really rare butterfly or animal or insect or mineral or plant that people will pay money to see, and practically never that you discover real treasure...”

″‘You see, magic doesn’t happen often- not once in a blue moon,’ Sheila went on, trying to get things clear. ‘I expect there isn’t another magic ship like this in the whole world.‘”

“Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, leaving only flawless beauty.”

“Something is rare and desirable when it is made to seem so.”

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow.