Rare Quality Quotes

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

He's as cool as a prized marrow!

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

I think any manager who tells you, 'I am very good at keeping my equilibrium. I'm always calm and reasoned, and results don't affect me particularly. I can take the good with the bad, and I can put the wins and the losses in perspective,' you will find a special person. I've never met one.

I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Honestly, 'Battlestar' is a truly unique thing, and it's hard for anything to step up to that. There aren't often shows that are as good as that.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.