Varying Quotes
123 Varying quotes by 110 unique authors
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
— George Henry Lewes
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
— John Locke
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
— Lance Loud
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
— Salman Rushdie
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Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy.…
— John Travolta
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Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
— Geoff Mulgan
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I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
— Jasper Fforde
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It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult,…
— Ron Paul
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In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
— Richard P. Feynman
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He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes…
— Sarah Dessen
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I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs.…
— Nelson DeMille
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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
— Bette Greene
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People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this…
— David Mitchell
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It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and…
— Sheri L. Dew
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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and…
— Bell Hooks
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She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
— Jasper Fforde
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Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages…
— Chris Wooding
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Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the…
— Ellen Hopkins
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And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
— Fernando Pessoa
Who Wrote These Varying Quotes
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