Variety Quotes - Page 37

• Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Interesting, Personality, Individuality

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• Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

  Marie de France

  Stories, Want, Ought

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Mean, Talking, Nuts

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.75, Vintage

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• American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

  Molly Haskell

  Sensual, Cartoon, Different

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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• There is a variety in tempers of good men.

  Francis Atterbury

  Men, Good Man, Temper

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• The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.

  Winifred Holtby

  Adventure, Balance, World

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.455, Hachette UK

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• To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

  Helen Foster Snow

  Party, Mean, Doe

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• Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

  Carl Guardino

  Teacher, Nature, Smart

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• The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Journey, Space

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Christian, Character, Adversity

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• Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Real, Power, Men

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• funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

  Katha Pollitt

  Hate, Believe, Garden

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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• Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Nike, People, Marketing

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• Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

  Mary Ruefle

  Long, Facts, Language

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.42, Wave Books

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• Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

  Boethius

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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

  Toby Hemenway

  Support You, People, Way

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• I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

  Morgan Freeman

  Fans

  "Morgan Freeman talks about '5 Flights Up' - and more". Interview with Bill Goodykoontz, www.azcentral.com. May 6, 2015.

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• The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fantasy, Rich, Mythology

  Source: www.phantastik-couch.de

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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

  Jo Coudert

  Personality, Creative, Energy

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.15, iUniverse

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• Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Freedom, Guarantees, Today

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'

  Drew Barrymore

  Kids, Thinking, Worry

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• But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

  Carre Otis

  Yoga, Elements, Movement

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I've done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.

  Jodi Benson

  Done, Entertainment, Different

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

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• I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

  Jodi Benson

  Thinking, Feelings, Entertainment

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

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