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Quotes About Variability

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
~ Giacomo Casanova
you just can't use averages to predict the specifics of the next generation of eddies, any more than you could use an average to predict the life-story of an individual human being.
~ Giles Foden
The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.
~ Glendon Swarthout
I live in a constant flux; I am unable to make fixed plans.
~ Jack Vance
Life is like the moon— now dark, now full.   —Polish Proverb
~ James Conroyd Martin
Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.
~ James Gleick
Some days I'm Uncle Situation, other days I'm Dr. Situation, I'm Chef Situation.
~ Michael Sorrentino
Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.
~ Vivienne Ming
Grades and Marks do not reflect the intelligence of individuals. Intelligence differs person to person and cannot be measure at the same scale.
~ Shahid Iqbal
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".
~ G.K. Chesterton
Stability is not the way of the world.
~ Paul Singer
We all have different aspects of ourselves, and who we are to different people in our lives, at different stages of our lives.
~ Lulu Wang
The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.
~ Edith Wharton
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
~ Henry Miller
There are vicissitudes in all things.
~ Terence
I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — a streak of lean and a streak of fat.
~ Texas Guinan
Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
~ Ben Zobrist
I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.
~ RJ Barrett
When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'
~ Kevin Nealon
There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
~ Stephen Fry
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Conditions change and we mutate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There is no one right answer for all circumstances. You have to start by understanding the job the customer is trying to have done.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
~ Virgil