Quotes About Variety

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We're all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! (Jonas) It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it? The Giver asked him.

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

This is not a restaurant. Restaurants serve different things from this.

What do you eat?" she asked. "Mulligan stew," said Bob. "My friends and I collect scraps of food all day, and then we cook it up in a big pot and share it. It's always different, but very tasty." "Why is it called mulligan stew?" asked Stephen. "There was once a hobo named Mulligan," said Bob. "He made the first mulligan stew." "Was he a good cook?" asked Todd. "No, he was eaten by cannibals.

Mr. Rossini had about twelve different kinds of sublime and about 150 kinds of ridiculous.

Happiness is the same for everyone, but unhappiness is different for each person.

Y pensé: si tú supieras la cantidad de vidas distintas que puede haber en una sola vida...

si tú supieras la cantidad de vidas distintas que puede haber en una sola vida...

con el tiempo he descubierto que la normalidad no existe; que no viene de la palabra normal, como sinónimo de lo más común, lo más abundante, lo más habitual, sino de norma, de regulación y de mandato. La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.

For the world is wondrous large, Seven seas from marge to marge, And it holds a vast of various kinds of man. And the wildest dreams of Kew Are the facts of Khatmandu, And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban. MORAL: Judge not that ye be not judged.

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in a sort of sing-song) a few of the laws that apply to the wolves. There are, of course, hundreds and hundreds more, but these will do for specimens of the simpler rulings.

You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee. You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky's not the way of Winkie Pop!

Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it.

I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

Anybody ever tries to tell you how this most beautiful and most evil of planets is somehow homogeneous, composed only of reconcilable elements, that it all adds up, you get on the phone to the straitjacket tailor.

But while having some choice is generally good, it seems that having too many options tends to undermine our feelings of satisfaction, no matter which option we choose.

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.