Quotes About Variety

It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

they had drawn about them a following of rabble unmatched for variety and sordidness by any they had yet encountered

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody did he.

We're so lucky, I said. Don't you think? Most people don't have that. I know, everywhere other than New York, if you have a good job and a spouse and kids and a house and a car, those are the markers of maturity and stability and completeness. And you eat your dinner at seven P.M. and go to bed at ten, and go for vigorous jogs on the weekend. If you're into that, great. But there are lots of other ways to put a life together.

The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.

The list goes on. There are myriad versions of the talk because there are myriad ways to be human. And we wish we had the space to capture all of these conversations within these chapters, because we know they are happening, and we know people are hurting.

Cucinala come vuoi, ma sempre cocuzza el...Cook squash anyway you like, but it's still squash.

Crezco por igual en las regiones vastas y en las estrechas, crezco por igual entren los negros y los blancos.

I contain multitudes

I resist anything better than my own diversity, And breathe the air and leave plenty after me

Sometimes I wondered if my problem was liking too many different kinds of

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

You don't have to be just like everybody else … there is another way.

Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the President of General Motors making a major corporate decision. They are different. Nothing more!

Él se limitó a sonreír y dijo—: Algunos de nosotros tenemos un acabado mate, otros satinado, otros esmaltado.... —él se volvió hacia mí—. Pero de vez en cuando conoces a alguien que es iridiscente, y cuando ocurre, no hay nada comparable.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss....He turned to me. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss but every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you, nothing will compare

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.

And, as you know, opinions are like assholes---everybody has one.)

Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her own "measure" is his way of putting it. This idea has entered very deep into modern consciousness. It is also new. Before the late eighteenth century no one thought that the differences between human beings had this kind of moral significance.

I see that I have not remarked that these women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments, and the middle one in particular was shingled with them.

...See Hieracium's various tribe, Of plumy seed and radiate flowers, The course of Time their blooms describe, And wake or sleep appointed hours....

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore