Zitat des Tages über Am seltensten / Rarest:
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Parliamentary obstructionism should be avoided. It is a weapon to be used in the rarest of the rare cases. Parliamentary accountability is as important as parliamentary debate. Both must coexist.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.