Best 72 quotes in «variety quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

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.

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

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

It takes all sorts (to make a world

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

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

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

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

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

Variety is not everything! Viagra is!

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

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

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

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.

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 joy of life is variety.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

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

When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

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

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

At first glance, the main display case at Dicecca today looks like a selection you'll find in any cheese shop in Puglia: tubs of milky water covering hunks of mozzarella in its many guises; strings of swollen scamorze dangling from the ceiling, bronzed by their stopover in the cold smoker; small plastic containers of creamy ricotta ready to be stuffed or eaten straight with a spoon. But look closer and you'll see some unfamiliar faces staring back at you through the glass: a large bucket brimming with ricotta spiked with ribbons of blue cheese and toasted almonds, served by the scoop; a wooden serving board paved with melting slabs of goat cheese weaponized with a cloak of bright red chili flakes; a hulking wheel of pecorino, stained shamrock green by a puree of basil and spinach. These are the signs of a caseificio in the grips of an evolution, one that started more than a decade ago when the brothers took the reins from their parents and began to expand the definition of a small, family-run cheese shop.

But I don't doubt it will be essentially the same type of crime. The details may be different, but the essentials underlying them will be the same. It's odd, but a criminal gives himself away every time by that. Man is an unoriginal animal," said Hercule Poirot. "Women," said Mrs. Oliver, " are capable of infinite variation. I should never commit the same type of murder twice running." "Don't you ever write the same plot twice running?" asked Battle.

Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a time in a foreign country makes us aware of merits in which our own country is deficient, and this is true whichever country our own may be. The same thing holds of differences between different regions within one country, and of the differing types produced by different professions. Uniformity of character and uniformity of culture are to be regretted. Biological evolution has depended upon inborn differences between individuals or tribes, and cultural evolution depends upon acquired differences. When these disappear, there is no longer any material for selection. In the modern world, there is a real danger of too great similarity between one region and another in cultural respects. One of the best ways of minimising this evil is an increase in the autonomy of different groups.

Draft me brain;the lines to connect far world of wonders;lift me waves from the gloomy hours to imbue with my new Love.

Each time Vesuvius erupted, it covered its slopes with a deep layer of a remarkable natural fertilizer called potash, and as a result the mountain supported dozens of species of fruit and vegetables which grew nowhere else in all Italy, a culinary advantage which more than compensated for the area's occasional dangers. In the case of apricots, the varieties included the firm-fleshed Cafona, the juicy Palummella, the bittersweet Boccuccia liscia, the peachlike Pellecchiella and the spiky-skinned but incomparably succulent Spinosa.

I'd rather love the same woman for a hundred years than sleep with someone new every night.

Experience is not necessarily accumulated over the extent of time lived. In my opinion, it is accumulated over the degree and variety of activities a person has been involved in

Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht! Auch ohne Liebe sind wir manchmal glücklich und froh - es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so! Es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so!

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!

I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a temper? If so, you didn't hear him out and lost track of his system of opinions. You avoided someone out of disgust—and a completely unknown personality slipped out of your ken—precisely the type you would have needed someday. But, however tardily, I nonetheless caught myself and realized I had always devoted my time and attention to people who fascinated me and were pleasant, who engaged my sympathy, and that as a result I was seeing society like the Moon, always from one side.