Variety Quotes

Variety is the soul of pleasure. (Aphra Behn)
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to. View quote
Susie Bright
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only. View quote
Robert Shea
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. View quote
Charles Cooley
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. View quote
Petrarch
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t. View quote
Margaret Mead
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations. (Margaret Mead)
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them. View quote
Vitruvius
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. View quote
Martha Graham
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. View quote
Dave Barry
There is no better means of reducing a fallacious variety of thought to absurdity than to let it live itself out completely. View quote
Carl Menger
In Fascism, as in Communism, the idea of the future was based on a critique of bourgeois modernity... It rose from a variety of currents and from authors of very different origins, all of whom demonized the bourgeoisie. The doctrine was cast as post-Marxist, not as pre-liberal. View quote
Francois Furet
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market. View quote
Juan Manuel Santos
For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession. (James Heckman)
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen