rare combination Quotes

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

There's something rare and wonderful that's very particular to television, and it's when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That's what happened with 'Arrested Development.' It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.