Quotes About Variety

Most wealthy people have a wide variety of interests and activities. In fact, there is a substantial correlation between the number of interests and activities that people are involved in and their level of financial wealth.

And as for the human mind, I deny that it is the same in all men.  I hold that there is every variety of natural capacity from the idiot to Newton and Shakespeare; the mass of mankind, midway between these extremes, being blockheads of different degrees; education leaving them pretty nearly as it found them, with this single difference, that it gives a fixed direction to their stupidity, a sort of incurable wry neck to the thing they call their understanding. 

Wenn ein Tag wie alle ist, so sind sie alle wie einer.

tale ossessione era come una serra: un posto a temperatura costante, senz'aria, stipato di varietà multicolori, di fiori innaturali.

Varieties of hypocrite, see. Like learning the different kinds of poison plants out here, some'll kill the stock, some'll kill you, but use em right and some, believe it or not, will cure you instead. Nothing vegetable or human that ain't of some use.

Warm in the sun, freezing in the shade, it was a season of extremes.

Take a look at my face. Do you see my expression? Does it scare you? It should, because this is the expression of a woman who's fallen off a horse too many times to put up with more shenanigans of the verbal variety.

At any time in history, gazillions of lives are being lived simultaneously. In Zimbabwe, Thailand, Tasmania, and Borneo, in the poorest hovel and the richest palace, in the sky and on the moon, the lives of ants, plants, gorillas, and people are going on. But we are generally fixated on that infinitesimal thing in the scope of the universe, ourselves.

Every student is unique and brings contributions that no one else can make.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Thus, even in our day the unity of consciousness is still a doubtful affair; it can too easily be disrupted. An ability to control one's emotions that may be very desirable from one point of view would be a questionable accomplishment from another, for it would deprive social intercourse of variety, color, and warmth.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjective variety of an individual life.

Black, yellow, brown, and white Diversity is what makes the world seem right Diversity, Dee-verse-i-teeeeee

Things never happen the same way twice.

A single voice and yet a chorus.

Mariko had given her notorious sweet tooth full rein. Lex stared at the table of food and could already feel the sugar eating cavities into her enamel. Banana nut bread, sesame-crusted Chinese doughnuts, almond cookies, fruit cocktail and almond custard, steamed egg cake, even honey walnut prawns. On the non-Asian side was rum cake, blueberry pecan muffins, strawberry almond rolls, and croissants.

In this troublesome world we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business—no variety—it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me...I hate to stay in this old room by myself. —Abraham Lincoln

Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.