What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.
The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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.
Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul.
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.
If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.
Completeness is rare in history.
It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.
Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.