Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.
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.
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
Constancy in a man is rare.
The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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.
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.