R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rare abilities, when kept secret, are the most valuable form of currency we possess.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.”
“Rare and precious gifts,
gold and myrrh and frankincense,
to offer a king.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm extended immeasurably to keep hold of my reaching hand.
But Father Time, being a cruel master, will not grant such a wish.
And so I tuck you away as cherished memories, stored in a treasure box buried in my heart. And in times of solitude, I shall bring you out to view like rainbows.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Rare are the handful of principles that incessantly drive us to stand even when we face the stark realization that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender all to protect such principles. Yet, the rudimentary principles of freedom and liberty pristinely untarnished by greed and selfishness took captive the hearts of simple people and raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny. And let us all be warned that without renewed adherence to these principles, we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny.”
“Rare are the people who can capture a human being.”
“Rare are the people who love unconditionally the ones who're still learning to love themselves.”
“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender everything to protect such principles. Yet, these very characteristics are the unbending elements that raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and turmoil, and let us all be warned that without them we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and turmoil.”
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“Rare benevolence, the minister of God.”
Source: Past and Present
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”
Source: Rare People and Rare Books
“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or reservedly – within the hour. The pay rise promise is working a treat. Brichacek’s licking the tip of a pencil with her sticky pink tongue. “Stop flirting,” he tells her, but he looks at her breasts and thinks, The girls with the bruises in the sex films are just dead dolls, but this pretty toy is alive.”
Source: From the Horse’s Mouth
“Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.”
“Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.”
Source: Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations
“Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.”
“Rare is becoming less rare.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Rare is he who will concede genius.”
“Rare is not synonymous with valuable.”
“Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.”
“Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.”
“Rare is the man who can outrun his own fate”
“Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.”
Source: Mi Vida
“Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.”
“Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts.”
Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
“Rare is the Stalin-like individual, who lacks empathy and who seems to take pleasure in inflicting pain or watching pain inflicted to others; common is the -virtuous citizen acting in the name of righteous causes-.”
Source: Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
[Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae
Atque pudicitiae.]”
“Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.”
“Rare stories traveled of those who rose too high, the ships who sailed like Icarus towards the sun.
And like him, they crashed and burned for their arrogance.”
Source: The Airship Also Rises
“RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.”
“Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.”
“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”
“Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.”
“Rarely are we the same person we were ten or twenty years ago. Neither are our spouses. It’s almost impossible to know how these things will shake out. Will the us that got married still be as compatible years down the road? It takes more than love to stay together against the seas of change that want to tear us apart. It takes strength, and devotion.”
Source: Crash
“Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.”
Source: Darth Plagueis
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
“Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked".”
“Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both.”
“Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.”
“Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”
“Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school”
“Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.) Fewer still explore the secret sorrows of children's lives in the mid-1800s, whether enslaved or free. Running Out of Night, a debut novel from Californian Sharon Lovejoy, a veteran author-illustrator known nationally for her prizewinning nonfiction books on gardening and nature, gives you both.–OpEd News”
Source: Running Out of Night
“Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.”
Source: The Mezzanine: A Novel
“Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.”
“Rarely do they appear great before their valets.”
“Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
[Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]”
“Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.”
Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
Source: Strength to Love
“Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.”
“Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.”
Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...