Rare Quotes
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.
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.
If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.
As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare occasion anyway.
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that
Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.
Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.
It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.
Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.
