Variety Quotes

932 Variety quotes by 771 unique authors

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our… — Samuel McChord Crothers
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and… — John Playfair
It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good… — Gertrude B. Elion
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this… — Hugh Dancy
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his… — Thomas Jefferson
When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways. — Sun Tzu
The fun part of golf is the variety of shots. In football you can do anything with a ball, but you can do anything with… — Johan Cruijff
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of… — Lev S. Vygotsky
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… — George Santayana
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries… — Adolf Hitler
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me. — Bill Rodgers
There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short,… — Demi Lovato
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother,… — James Anthony Froude
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. — Mary Parker Follett
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in… — Franklin P. Adams
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,… — Oscar Wilde
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The… — Ambrose Bierce

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