Quotes About Variety

Yo no tengo una personalidad; yo soy un cocktail, un conglomerado, una manifestación de personalidades.

God's love for humanity wraps the spiritual in the perceptible, the superessential in the essence. It gives form … to what is formless and, through a variety of symbols, it multiplies and shapes Simplicity that has no shape. Dionysius the Areopagite Divine Names, I, 4

All human beings are alike in seeking happiness. Where they differ is in the objects from which they seek it and the strength they have to reach the objects they desire.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Passare dal norvegese al russo è cambiare mondo (...); trionfano le i, frequenti e variegate come le betulle.

Aquele que imagina que todos os frutos amadurecem ao mesmo tempo, como as cerejas, nada sabe a respeito das uvas.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

Wizards don't all look alike.

You can't read all the time.

What is it that some women think a man who's been eatin' buffet all his life will suddenly settle in for the same menu every night once he tastes their cookin'?

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version.

Not everything is black and white. In fact, almost nothing is.

Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.

She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.

A veces un hombre disfruta oyendo una sinfonía. Otras le apetece más una giga. Con el amor pasa lo mismo. Cierto tipo de amor resulta adecuado para los mullidos almohadones de un claro crepuscular. Otro resulta natural en el desorden de las sábanas de una cama estrecha en el último piso de una posada. Cada mujer es como un instrumento, y espera que la entiendan, la amen y la toquen con delicadeza, para por fin hacer sonar su verdadera música." Kvothe

It is easier to understand if you think of it in terms of music. Sometimes a man enjoys a symphony. Elsetimes he finds a jig more suited to his taste. The same holds true for lovemaking. One type is suited to the deep cushions of a twilight forest glade. Another comes quite naturally tangled in the sheets of narrow beds upstairs in inns. Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

Algunas eran amargas; otras, dulces. Algunas no eran prácticamente nada. Así es como son las cosas.

Cada uno se come una parte. diferente del cerdo —me había dicho—. Si quieres que te. acepten, haz lo mismo.» En diferentes lugares, diferentes decoros.

On the other hand, everyday language soon would prove inadequate for designating all the olfactory notions that he had accumulated within himself. Soon he was no longer smelling mere wood, but kinds of wood: maple wood, oak wood, pinewood, elm wood, pearwood, old, young, rotting, moldering, mossy wood, down to single logs, chips, and splinters.

Sin embargo, aunque todos procedemos del mismo jardín, al parecer no olemos las mismas rosas

Cada hombre es distinto de todos los demás, y cuando ocurren cosas horribles, cada cual reacciona a su manera.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another. Everything could be different.

Boredom is a cue that needs aren't being met. It's a signal that your environment lacks interest, variety, and newness. Just as the pain of a burn tells us where the damage is and motivates us to respond appropriately, boredom motivates us to seek out intellectual stimulation and social contact, to learn and engage and act. To be without boredom would be a curse.