Rare Quotes (page 11)

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• good
• time
• laughter

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter Charles Bukowski

• thinking
• common
• commonality

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.... Stephen King

• achievement
• psychology
• difficult

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. Abraham Maslow

• alone
• feeling
• feeling alone

A man rarely feels like laughing alone. Jean-Paul Sartre

• cat
• she
• shelf

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf. Derek Walcott

• rarely
• need
• make

What makes a treasure a treasure," Marina replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it most Jodi Picoult

• world
• culture
• intellectual

In the "free world" (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the indeterminate and shifting character of its boundaries, the existence of real centres of dissent (and the licence given to even Stalinist opposition)--all these conspire to create the central illusion of "Natopolitan" culture, that there is in fact no orthodoxy but only an infinite variety of opinions among which one is free to choose. E. P. Thompson

• logic
• common
• commons

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. Arthur Conan Doyle

• marketing
• moralism
• ours

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers. Learned Hand

• time
• commitment
• doubt

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis. George Byron

• hard
• hardly
• harding

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. Thomas Harris

• words
• friendship
• success

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully. Hunter S. Thompson

• theatre
• doubt
• watch

Sport, as I have discovered, fosters international hostility and leads the audience, no doubt from boredom, to assault and do grievous bodily harm while watching it. The fact that audiences at the National Theatre rarely break bottles over one another's heads, and that Opera fans seldom knee one another in the groin during the long intervals at Covent Garden, convinces me that theatre is safer than sport. John Mortimer

• true
• she
• little

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that. Edward de Bono

• people
• world
• trust

«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet dates. You’ve had people be creeps to you. You’ve seen what you’ve seen; you’ve felt what you’ve felt. Ideology is for people who don’t trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world» « I feel like I am going mad» « Madness is actually quite rare in individuals. It’s groups of people who go mad. Countries, cults ... religions» Doug Coupland