#rare

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. ↗

— James Whistler

#few #friendship #life #many #rare

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#adult #adult life #been #being #childhood

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#anyone #dogs #house #instance #into

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#best #careers #energy #half #i

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#ask #born #call #called #day

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#guilt #i #life #pleasant #rarely

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet