Varied Quotes

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment. — Claude Bernard

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals. — Michael Shermer

Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance. — Ed McGaa

The accents floating around the park sounded as varied, — Becky Rodgers Boyette

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. — Gustave Flaubert

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences. — Jonathan Zittrain

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. — Khalil

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male. — Sarah MacLean

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were. — Susie Orbach

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. — Andrew Johnson

The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.
For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright. — Wendy Beck

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there. — Martin Short

Peasants had to work harder than foragers to eke out less varied and nutritious food, and they were far more exposed to disease and exploitation. — Yuval Noah Harari

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career. — Douglas Booth

Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions. — Sergey Galitsky

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge. — Vera John-Steiner

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done. — Scott Raab

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man. — Holbrook Jackson

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires. — Thomas Hardy

The field of influence was great and infinitely varied - once one had conquered a name. — Joseph Conrad

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure. — Maya Angelou

The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next. — Amber Le Bon

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned. — Tim Roth

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience. — Sarah Baker

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself
one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. — Loretta Young

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really. — Michelle Dockery

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'. — Kelly Perdew

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems. — Marcus Samuelsson

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman. — Arnold Bennett

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting. — David Mamet

How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors? — S. Kelley Harrell

Variety is the Spice of Life. What Have You Varied Today? — S.J. Francis

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. — Edwin Newman

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. — Vivienne Westwood

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine. — Ann Leckie

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations. — Judith Anderson

The church must by her varied agencies, efforts, and prayers, make herself ready to be blessed; she must make the pools, and the Lord will fill them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that. — Tom Hollander

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. — Christopher Monckton

It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater, — Ben Aaronovitch

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically. — Kumail Nanjiani

People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. — Tennessee Williams

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases. — Grace Coolidge

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied. — Mark Knopfler

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. — Joe Rogan

I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that. — Naomie Harris

I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying. — Liya Kebede

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. — Sarah Brightman

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified. — Rachel Perry

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter. — George Chuvalo

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence. — Idries Shah

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over. — Kurt Busiek

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for. — Shira Wolosky

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'. — Daniel Radcliffe

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it. — Clive Owen

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. — Buzz Aldrin

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. — Francis Of Assisi

In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world
there is only one you. — Marianne Williamson

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. — Mike Love

An idle life always produces varied inclinations. — Lucan

I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do. — Anton Du Beke

A frightening menagerie, my emotions are
Too many and varied to number
Like creatures they crawl and they fly above
Tearing my body asunder. — Maggie Stiefvater

I've been quite lucky - everything I've done has been quite varied. — Konnie Huq

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A. — Jerry Orbach

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. — Dorothy Dunnett

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary. — Harold Holzer

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers. — Samuel Johnson

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. — William O. Douglas

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface. — Theodor Mommsen

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers. — Friedrich Frobel

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. — Vladimir Kramnik

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. — Arthur Schnitzler

Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? — Robert Gottlieb

Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied. — Wilson Bentley

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. — Stacy Keach

THE BODY, IN AND THROUGH WHICH WE BREATHE, move, communicate and reproduce is an amazing instrument in many varied physical ways. — Elaine Seiler

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms. — George Washington Carver

you sat breeding
multiple & varied as a ghost — Will Alexander

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion. — Abhijit Naskar

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music. — Oliver Sim

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans. — Sizzla

The rule of clerics is totalitarian. It means people can't choose. Humanity is varied, and we should celebrate that instead of suppressing it. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women. — Rosanna Arquette