Variety Quotes

932 Variety quotes by 771 unique authors

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,… — Margaret Mead
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances. — Desmond Morris
Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most… — Martina Navratilova
Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. — Ruth Benedict
There is need of variety in sex, but not in love. — Theodor Reik
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling,… — Israel Shenker
I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had… — Mark McGrath
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average… — Robert Waterman McChesney
Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude… — Rabindranath Tagore
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and… — James Loeb
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which… — Philippe Perrin
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. — Thomas Perry
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the… — John Shelton Reed
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. — Nora Roberts
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here,… — Juan Manuel Santos
We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually. — James Van Praagh
The expression of divinity is in variety. — Sheri S. Tepper
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they… — Mary Wesley
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering. — Charles C. Mann
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in… — Andie MacDowell
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety. — Samuel West

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