#rare

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#attention #back #come #had #happen

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#create #latter #numerous #rare #stronger

I am a rare species, not a stereotype. ↗

— Ivan E. Coyote

#gay #gender-bending #gender-spectrum #labels #lesbian

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much. ↗

— Travis Barker

#because #down #drum #drum set #i

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ↗

— Mark Twain

#courage #curious #moral #moral courage #physical

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#eat #morality #nature #rare #represents

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional