Variations Quotes

162 quotes by 145 authors

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance… — Lord Chesterfield
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but… — Noam Chomsky
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. — Tori Amos
Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations. — Neal A. Maxwell
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera… — Karl Landsteiner
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. — Margaret Fuller
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that… — Hermann Joseph Muller
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects… — Ronald Fisher
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before… — Molly Haskell
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household… — Eva Cox
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of… — Edward Hoagland
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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