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Quotes About Variety

In spite of the variety of prophetic phenomenon in space (north, south, exile) and in time (premonarchial, monarchial, exilic, and postexilic), the prophets enjoyed the common bond with the past (the Mosaic revelation) and the future acts of God: the new era of God's coming, the transformation of all things, the judgment of the wicked, and the vindication of the righteous.
~ Willem A. Vangemeren
Liberals are not all going to say exactly the same at all times; I hope they never will, because they would cease to be Liberals.
~ William Beveridge
Their menu points out that: "It took Vikings many centuries to create the smorgasbord. It brings you the fish of the sea, the meats of the range... the fruits of the land and the wings of the sky in a gracious gesture of hospitality and welcomes you to the meal that follows....
~ William C. Speidel, Jr.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
~ William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
~ William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.
~ William Cowper
A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
~ William Godwin
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
~ William Hazlitt
Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.
~ William Hazlitt
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
~ William James
there was probably something different about everybody and Karl's way of being different was no worse than anybody else's.
~ William Kent Krueger
Look at all Nature, through all its Height and Depth, in all its Variety of working Powers; it is what it is for this only End, that the hidden Riches, the invisible Powers, Blessings, Glory, and Love of the unsearchable God, may become visible, sensible, and manifest in and by it.
~ William Law
Look at all the Variety of Creatures; they are what they are for this only End, that in their infinite Variety, Degrees, and Capacities, they may be as so many speaking Figures, living Forms of the manifold Riches and Powers of Nature, as so many Sounds and Voices, Preachers, and Trumpets, giving Glory and Praise and Thanksgiving to that Deity of Love which gives Life to all Nature and Creature.
~ William Law
The natural, called in Scripture, the old Man, is steadily the same in Heart and Spirit in every Thing he does, whatever Variety of Names may be given to his Actions. For Self can have no Motion but what is selfish, which Way soever it goes, or whatever it does, either in Church or State. And be assured of this, that Nature in every Man, whether he be learned or unlearned, is this very Self, and can be nothing else, till a Birth of the Deity is brought forth in it.
~ William Law
intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters,
~ David Benioff
perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters, and the rest.
~ David Benioff
he had decided to record with the pint-sized but perfectly formed Scottish belter, Lulu. Lulu had been seriously hitless for more than a wee while (in fact, since 1969, when she was advocating the joys of 'Boom Bang-A-Bang'), and her career had slipped into the variety twilight zone of guest slots on the Morecambe and Wise Show and suchlike.
~ David Buckley
People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes.
~ David Byrne
Shoddy explanations that yield correct predictions are two a penny, as UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy-theorists and pseudo-scientists of every variety should (but never do) bear in mind.
~ David Deutsch
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
~ David Duchovny
Belgarath turned back to Senji. "All right," he said. "The Sardion came to Zamad. How?" "It's said to have fallen out of the sky." "They always do," Beldin said. "Someday I'd like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
~ David Eddings
Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.
~ David Lagercrantz
Glory be to God for dappled things.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.
~ India.Arie