A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
Quotes about rarity (16 Quotes)
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
It's a rarity that workers would show up unannounced. Customers usually initiate a phone call to set up an appointment, or a phone call (by the utility company) is usually made beforehand.
The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great, like the humble, may have to find their satisfaction in the same plain things.
Knowing as we do
our certain doom,
knowing as we do
the rarity of the gifts we gave
& received,
can we redeem
our love from the limbo,
dust it off like a fine sea trunk
found in an attic
The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.
David Thomson, the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, ... a modern rarity an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality. ... He has made a variety of flawed, pleasurable films, the merits of which invariably depend on his laconic presence.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
He's a very good shooter who always shoots on balance, and that's a rarity today. He never shoots off-balance.
Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun.
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues.... A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front they only marshal us in the way that we are going.
Documented celebrity cars always fetch a great deal of attention at our auctions. And when they're two of the most phenomenal sports cars in the world, they attract even more attention. Dr. Phil certainly had an eye for quality and rarity when he purchased these two beauties.
I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.
Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.