Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. — Stef Penney
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. — Carlos Fuentes
Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnâ€™t it bothered you, this part… — Glen Duncan
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster… — John Steinbeck
How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from… — Timothy Zahn
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself — William Saroyan
It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire… — Rachel Cohn
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history… — Isaac Asimov
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green… — Conrad Aiken
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. — Ian Mcewan
He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation… — Nora Roberts
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. — John Steinbeck
Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of… — Khaled Hosseini
Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a… — Maggie Stiefvater
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. — Sylvia Plath
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.… — Tana French
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be… — Kurt Vonnegut
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his… — Nikos Kazantzakis

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