Quotes About Variety

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

DIFFERENT NOT LESS

So many men, so many opinions

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

So many men so many questions.

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

I saw that every flower He has created has a beauty of its own, that the splendor of the rose and the lily's whiteness do not deprive the violet of its scent nor make less ravishing the daisy's charm. I saw that if every little flower wished to be a rose, Nature would lose her spring adornments, and the fields would be no longer enameled with their varied flowers.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

Not everyone can have the same devotion. One exactly suits this person, another that. Different exercises, likewise, are suitable for different times, some for feast days and some again for weekdays. In time of temptation we need certain devotions. For days of rest and peace we need others. Some are suitable when we are sad, others when we are joyful in the Lord.

We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts. And we very willingly talk and think of those things which we love or desire, or else of those which we most dislike.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which it is directed, and consequently the nature of a capacity is diversified as the nature of the act is diversified.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

everywhere a good and a bad book

There are nearly 7 billion people on this planet, so there are a lot of characters to play.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

Life is not positive or negative; it's a mixture.

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'