Variety Quotes - Page 27

• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  William Shenstone

  Beauty, Opposites, Simplicity

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.150

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• Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Roots, Unity, Progress

  james freeman clarke (1864). “the hour whic conveth and now is sermons preached in indiana place chapel boston”, p.114

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• Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Men, Desire

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.

  Mira Grant

  Baby, Growing Up, Games

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• I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

  Amy Weber

  Girl, Sweet, Opportunity

  "Amy Weber...bikini babe". AskMen interview, www.askmen.com.

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• America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

  Ross Douthat

  America, Littles, Too Much

  Ross Douthat (2013). “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

  David Hume

  Perception, Mind, Philosopher

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.534

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• Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

  PZ Myers

  Law, Special, Important

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• His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too much vibrato. It's like putting bright red lipstick on a beautiful woman.' I always thought it was funny that when you broke a musical rule-like accenting a weak beat-he would turn his head away from you sharply, almost as though he were in pain. It's like you just slapped him in the face by being unmusical.

  Manny Laureano

  Beautiful, Pain, Red Lipstick

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• Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? Do they change places with lightning speed? The Chinese believe so. To put the heart of the martial arts in your own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Warrior

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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• You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out.

  John Templeton

  Life, Adventure, Self

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• A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

  Charles Darwin

  Numbers, Balance, Individual

  Charles Darwin (2007). “On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.293, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Peace, Littles, Excitement

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Today, Opinion

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moving, Mean

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• I love accents, I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement — for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

  Stana Katic

  Song, Character, Voice

  "Stana Katic: I'm a high stakes kind of girl". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

  Mark McGrath

  Real, Thinking, Rays

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• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Media, Average

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• Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Attitude, Self, Expression

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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• The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

  Philippe Perrin

  Jobs, Character, Careers

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• I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

  Thomas Perry

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

  Nora Roberts

  Genre

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

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Wells, Splitting, Divergence

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