Variety Quotes - Page 19

• Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Desire, World

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.447, GENERAL PRESS

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• Christmas is more than trees and twinkling lights, more than toys and gifts and baubles of a hundred varieties. It is love. It is the love of the Son of God for all mankind. It is magnificent and beautiful.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Son, Light

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• The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Animal, Zest

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• Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Art, Students

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  Mal Peet

  Book, Form, Illiteracy

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• Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.

  Mal Peet

  Together, Different, Three

  Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

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• Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Christian, Football, Hockey

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• I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

  Alan Lee

  Heart, Rivers, Tree

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• It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

  Roman Jakobson

  Identity, Problem, Classification

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• Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Strive, Declaration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

  Ernest Crawley

  Football, Men, Differences

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• The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  Michael Oxley

  Military, Cutting, Marine

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• The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Religious

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Spring, Tree, Earth

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.203

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• The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Country, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

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• Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

  John Herschel

  Book, Reading, World

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

  Van Day Truex

  Art, Design, Reign

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• Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Real, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1766, Manonmani Publishers

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• It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

  Barbara Lee

  Life And Death, Humanity, Survival

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Community, Decision

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• "Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

  Sandra Boynton

  Passion, Chocolate, Infinite

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• To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).

  Robert Graves

  War, Knowledge, Civilization

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• The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

  Nelson Mandela

  Change, Destiny, Race

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

  W. G. Grace

  Effort, Healthy, Fellowship

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• Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Beautiful, Essence, Grace

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