Quotes with variety

  • Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
  • Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
  • Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
  • Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
  • The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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  • William Cowper Variety is the very spice of live, I that gives it all its flavour.
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    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • William Shakespeare Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Wyndham Lewis All orthodox opinion - that is, today, ''revolutionary'' opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Beth Ditto Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Willard Beecher Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Plato Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Barbara Delinsky Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Boethius 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?
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • James Thomson I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Johnny Carson If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Blake Farenthold In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Carroll Quigley Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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