Quotes About Variety

The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella).

Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.

Uma das coisas mais fascinantes da raça humana é não haver duas pessoas iguais. (...) No comportamento, tal como na aparência, cada ser humano é único.

After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

Murderers aren't a type. They're anyone.

Things around here have deviated from the usual

Love is love, but there are so many ways of articulating it.

The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, with is commonly presumed infinite.

Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago. Those old-timers now lurk only in backyard gardens and on farms that specialize in direct sales--if they survive at all. Many heirlooms have been lost entirely.

If wishes were horses, like they say. We'd all have different shit to shovel.

we've got the whole rest of the world over there, other than people, which are only one thing.

Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.

As a kid you just accept different worlds with different rules, even between some houses and others.

It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees.

Not all emeralds are exactly the same color.

I realized my knowledge of that potentially damning evidence gave Delilah a reason to want me out of the way. "Out of the way" might take a variety of different forms, of course, but none of them would be particularly attractive from my standpoint

diversity is an ineluctable component of every successful attempt to establish order.

To eliminate diversity would be like eliminating carbon and expecting life to go on.

WE'VE SEEN THAT AS THE NUMBER OF OPTIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION goes up and the attractive features associated with the rejected alternatives accumulate, the satisfaction derived from the chosen alternative will go down.

The benefits of having options are apparent with each particular decision we face, but the costs are subtle and cumulative.

The trouble was that with all these options available to me now, I was no longer sure that "regular" jeans were what I wanted. Perhaps the easy fit or the relaxed fit would be more comfortable.

the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better.

CHOOSING WELL IS DIFFICULT, AND MOST DECISIONS HAVE SEVERAL different dimensions.