Quotes About Variety

pattern that is all one color is no pattern.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible…and good? What would we find to talk about?

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

That Anne-girl improves all the time," she said. "I get tired of other girls—there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them. Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.

Oh, well, it takes all kinds of people to make a world...

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared.

I know that into everybody's life must come some days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savor. The sunniest day has its clouds; but one must not forget that the sun is there all the time. How easy it is to be a philosopher - on paper! (Item: - If you are out in a cold, pouring rain, does it keep you dry to remember that the sun is there just the same?) Well, thank heaven no two days are ever exactly alike!

We're all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Uva uvam vivendo varia fit

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other

Anybody knew that no two men were alike. You could measure cloth with a yardstick, or distance by miles, but you could not lump men together and measure them by any rule. Brains and character did not depend on anything but the man himself. Some men did not have the sense at sixty that some had at sixteen.

Laura thought of Ma's saying, It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

The thing people are never indifferent to are differences.

Love is not a one-size-fits-all emotion; there are as many different kinds of love as there are people.

Total consistency is an appalling virtue.

No matter how interesting your spouse is, there are only so many ways you can make a meatloaf or recount your day's experiences over dinner.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;——they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book, for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;—one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer,——he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All hail, brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting.

There are eight million stories in the naked city, he intoned. You remember that program? Used to be on television some years back. I remember. They had that line at the end of every show. 'There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.' I remember it. Eight million stories, he said. You know what you got in this city, this fucked-up toilet of a naked fucking city? You know what you got? You got eight million ways to die.