Rarest Quotes

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Knowing it`s going to work is the rarest part of that equation. It was all at once for us.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

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.

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.

Creativity is an advertising agency`s most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

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.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

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.

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn`t. I don`t want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don`t believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That`s not how it works in America.