Variety Quotes

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel

“Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)”
― Ally Carter

“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”
― Jean M. Auel

“I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..."
"Variety is the spice of life"
"And from a thousand miles apart"
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder”
― Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals

“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.”
― William Cowper

“The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety.”
― Bronowski

“A positive man makes an airplane, while a negative man makes a parachute.”
― Kim Jong Min

“It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.”
― Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour V1: First Earl of Balfour 1848-1905

“Starting is not half the battle. The start is merely the start. When you begin thinking it’s too late, it’s already too late, so start immediately.”
― Park Myung Soo

“Try different activities to see which skill is best suitable for your success. Without variety, you'll never truly know.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I wonder how many people would care about the world if they could do it anonymously. It’s fine to believe what we want, but it’s not fine to think people are less than us because they think different. Different is beautiful. Variety is gracious. We live in a time of two: you or me. It’s so cold.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Dissimilarity is central to creating variety.”
― Joshua Field, An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design

“I did not look for a work of art every time I went to a cinema. In fact, I doubt I could have learnt very much if I had seen nothing but masterpieces. - Satyajit Ray in Deep Focus.”
― Satyajit Ray, Deep Focus: Reflections On Cinema

“There is not a moment where a sunset is not happening. Yet, despite the fact that there is a sunset occurring at every moment of every day, no two are ever alike. And I marvel at the limitless genius of the God who handed me the privilege of living this day in a manner entirely unique to every yesterday and all tomorrows.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Diversity is climbing’s greatest strength. There’s no way to get bored! Each game is so difficult, most people spend their lives trying to master just one. The beauty and variety of the various playing fields beckon from across the globe.”
― Chris Noble, Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring Climbers

“Working at Mauna Kea Observatories brought on chronic fatigue, irritability, and a variety of mental health problems that have plagued me ever since.”
― Steven Magee

“Even though the sauce started with the basic ingredients---sugar and salt---there were endless varieties. In Kansas City, their barbecue was known for rich, robust sauce with a reduced tomato base. There was an area of the Carolinas known as the Low Country---she didn’t know why it was called Low Country---where they favored a light yellow mustard sauce. Here in Texas, folks went for heat---from jalapeños, serranos, or even fiery ghost chilies---the kind of deep, flavorful pepper that sent the waitstaff at Cubby’s scurrying for pitchers of beer and sweet tea by the gallon.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“Leeda moved down the row slowly, picking expertly, doing a touch test on the fruits whose ripeness she doubted. If she picked them too soon, they wouldn't taste sweet enough because they wouldn't have time to draw in enough sugar. If she picked them too late, she knew, they would have already started producing ethylene, a chemical that ripened them, and they'd be overripe by the time they were sold. Their first summer on the orchard, Birdie had revealed to them that the world of peaches was more intricate and varied than they ever imagined. Clingstones, the ones that clung to their pits, ripened earliest, then semi-frees, and then freestones. Each variety was like a different dog breed with vastly different characteristics---the texture of the meat, the fuzziness of the skin, the strength and sweetness of the flavor.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Love and Peaches

“But one person had stayed quiet ever since Alisha’s wedding, the person whose blessing she wanted most, and he was sitting across from her, leaning back in his chair like he wanted to put some distance between himself and the platter of tempeh barbecue sliders.
“Vegetarian barbecue?” Pops made it sound like blasphemy.
She grinned. Silence was damning, but pushback she could handle. “Yep. I want to make sure there’s something for everyone here. And expanding our options makes sense from a business standpoint. If we’re getting more out-of-town customers, we need to offer dishes to suit a variety of dietary needs and preferences.” She nudged the plate toward him. “C’mon, I bet you’ll love it.”
He picked up a slider and took a bite, then went back for another with a murmur of appreciation. “That’s actually tasty,” he admitted. “But why’d you go and make new buns? We’ve already got rolls on the menu.”
“Yeah, but these are gluten-free.”
“Quit lying.” He twisted the roll around, scrutinizing it like he was trying to ascertain its chemical makeup, then took another bite and chewed, brow creased in thought. “Vegetarian options I guess I can get used to, even though we used to have a pig on the sign,” he said, and chuckled.”
― Chandra Blumberg, Stirring Up Love

“The medical profession is a money making con, they will keep you sick on a variety of expensive prescriptions and on a yo-yo into their offices to bill your medical insurance.”
― Steven Magee

“The more a woman gives her paramour; even more she satiates him, and its only time before she finds him bypass her favours for lesser flavours.”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love

“Aging may take you journeying through a variety of health conditions.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Variety is not the spice, but the very stuff of life.”
― Christopher Burney, Solitary Confinement

“I'm aware, we're all aware, what goes on outside the bubble.
We're not stupid. We just thought people outside the bubble wanted the same thing:
To live as variously as possible.
Or, put another way: I am the least difficult of men.
All I want is boundless love.

It took us sixty years or so to understand
What the word "boundless" meant.
Now we know. And we'll never forget.”
― Vincent Katz

“Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for the last thirty years. And after all this time, I still find myself in the same state of wonder and bewilderment. Chinese cuisine is like a fractal pattern that becomes more and more intricate the more closely you examine it, to a seemingly infinite degree. The more I know, the less I feel I know. When it comes to Chinese food, I see myself increasingly as a small insect scaling a great mountain of human ingenuity.”
― Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

“It's possible to be several things at the same time. You can think different thoughts and hold different identities and be fascinated by different things all at once. It doesn't make you weak or distracted; it makes you human.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A Heinlein