Quotes About Variety

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

For myself I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

The world is a zoo

28 Flavors.

57 Varieties.

Man does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish.

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.

There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.

Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.

Movable feasts.

De gustibus non disputandum [There is no accounting for tastes].

Every sparrow is unlike every other sparrow despite the similarities.

Si tienes mil platos favoritos, la pérdida de uno de ellos te pasará inadvertida, y tu felicidad no sufrirá menoscabo. Pero son precisamente tus apegos los que te impiden desarrollar un más amplio y más variado gusto por las cosas y las personas.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Imogene has twenty-two birdfeeders, some pole-mounted, some suspended from eaves, platform feeders and globe feeders, coffee can feeders and feeders that look like little Swiss chalets, and every evening, when she comes home from work, she drags a stepladder from one to the next, toting a bucket of mixed seeds, keeping them full. In

Life can turn out a million ways. - Pg. 82

Vài ng??i y?u kém trên phÆ°Æ¡ng di?n nào Ä'ó. Ng??i khác nhau thì m?t y?u kém khác nhau.

Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.

multifarious lifestyles among members of his circle.

Everything depends on the point of view and is rich in varying aspects. A picture is sublime from one corner of the room, a daub from another; a woman's full face may be perfect, her profile a disappointment; above all, what you admire in yourself becomes highly distasteful in your neighbor. The moral is, I suppose, Tolerance; or if not that, something else which has escaped me.

So that was it: an unhealthy chef, a blind psychic, a war historian, a children's author, a French performance poet, Hawthorne and me. Not quite the magnificent seven, I couldn't help thinking.

His choice of books was too diverse to tell me anything: literary fiction, thrillers, classics… everything from Dan Brown to Dostoyevsky.