Quotes About Variability

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

Life is something whose definition vary person to person.

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

Good/bad explanation An explanation that is hard/easy to vary while still accounting for what it purports to account for.

Human sexual and social behavior shares some similaries with that of rodents, but has some important differences as well. It shows much greater variability and individuality, for example, and is less closely tied to the olfactory system. At present, it is tempting to speculate that those of us with cheatin' hearts might have differences in brain dopamine, vasopressin, or oxytocin signaling when compared to our more faithful friends who have adopted the prairie vole lifestyle.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.