Variety Quotes - Page 9

• Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Doors, Two

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.123, Bantam

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• The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Rays, Colour

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  Elana Meyers

  Basketball, Summer, Softball

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There are a variety of reasons. Not all Western leaders are equal. We have to make a certain separation from naïve Americans and Europeans. These are two different categories. For the Europeans, it affects the image of the "New Europe." The false image of Europe is that it is peaceful, separate from the past. Now the image of the New Europe is a radically false image.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Past, Europe, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• [Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Rainy Day, Visits You

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• As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Drama, Men, Soul

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• The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You're too old to play leads, so you're offered the supporting role - but many stars don't want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Thinking, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

  Michael Parkinson

  Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands

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• The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Reality, Men, Self

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• My agency tells me I am rare because I sing, do movie trailers, and do cartoons too. I like that because it gives me variety in jobs. I don't just sit and do movie trailers, and I don't just do cartoons either. I can do both, and I feel very fortunate for that.

  Jim Cummings

  Jobs, Agency, Giving

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• One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

  Clive Owen

  Character, Jumping, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

  Guy Pearce

  Different, Done, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Truth Is, Behinds, Unifying

  "Thought for the day" column on Sathya Sai International Organisation site, October 5, 2008.

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• The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

  Elliott Abrams

  Issues, Iran, Land

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• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Museums

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Color, Nuance, Emotion

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

  Judith Herrin

  Unity, Christianity, Dynamism

  Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.

  Isaac Newton

  Fall, Order, Perfection

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• Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

  Bill Hybels

  Focus, Mind, Affection

  Bill Hybels (1993). “Laws of the Heart”, Victor Books

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• The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking system altogether. Time will tell whether or not this will succeed. Meanwhile, a serious danger lurks around the corner. Once the recession is over, the lending will start again. With fractional-reserve banking and limitless supplies of cash on hand, we will likely see the overall price trends reversed, from deflation to inflation to possible hyperinflation.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Hands, Banking, Cash

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• Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles on a wide variety of issues. But what Obama has in store will make President Bush appear, in retrospect, like a libertarian.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Ice, President

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• Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us to deduce that he is a political nitwit. Other Nobel laureates have been nitwits, for instance, Bertrand Russell. There are a lot of political nitwits in this world. Perhaps the Times could give Krugman a cooking column. He would be its Nobel Prise-winning cooking columnist.

  Bob Tyrrell

  Winning, Long, Giving

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• To a value investor, investments come in three varieties: undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another price, and overvalued at still some higher price. The goal is to buy the first, avoid the second, and sell the third.

  Seth Klarman

  Goal, Three, Firsts

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• I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  New York, Moving, Divorce

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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

  Kim Basinger

  Longevity, Very Thankful

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2014.

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