Best 72 quotes in «variety quotes» category

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words of the popular phrase, knocked into the middle of next week. And the goad which drives it on thus eagerly is not an affectation for futurity Futurity does not exist, because it is still future. Rather it is a fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seem to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers. The older generation, not the younger, is knocking at our door. It is agreeable to escape, as Henley said, into the Street of By-and-Bye, where stands the Hostelry of Never. It is pleasant to play with children, especially unborn children. The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already covered with illegible scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity. And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.

Trees emit a wide variety of electromagentic radiation and it is regarded as healthy to live in a natural area that is surrounded by trees due to these beneficial emissions to human health.

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

Variety in your diet is health in your life.

Variety is precious when it expresses nature more richly by developing various aspects of it; but the variety that consists in producing cripples and abortions instead of normal human beings has nothing to commend it to the lover of mankind.

We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

Welcome to Planet Earth, the destination of fragmented wisdom.

We routinely worked with a variety of solvents at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

The great cheeses of Europe were born during the Middle Ages- Cheddar in southern England in the twelfth century, Gouda in the Netherlands not long after; Parmigiano-Reggiano, the king of Italian cheeses, emerged as a staple of the cuisine of Emilia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. From there, cheese began its inexorable march toward diversification, from sharp, funky blue cheeses aged in caves to unpasteurized triple creams to tangy pucks of goat cheese rolled in lavender and fennel pollen. By some estimates, more than four thousand varieties of cheeses are produced today- a thousand in France alone- made from a dozen different kinds of milk: cow, sheep, yak, reindeer, even human.

Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided in the great variety which is to be found in His word.

A harem lacks variety compared to a woman with whom you are deeply in love.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

The joy of life is variety.

The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

Variety is the spice of love.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

Variety is not everything! Viagra is!

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.