Second Variety Quotes

#1. A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#2. Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany's)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!"
"So Santa-san is delivering gifts to children while driving under the influence ... ?

Hidekaz Himaruya

#3. When I'm writing there's nobody watching me. Today, it's hard to find a profession where you're not being watched!

Ruskin Bond

#4. And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Maurice Sendak

#5. I didn't want to frighten you. I only tell you now because if you leave, I cannot guarantee your safety even with a guard posted.
Then I'll take extra care myself and rely on the Lord.

Laura Frantz

#6. Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Hermann Hesse

#8. My body has cried out for you every single minute of every day since you left me.

Jacquelyn Frank

#9. It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.

Meghan Daum

#10. Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.

Northrop Frye

#11. In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

John Ralston Saul

#13. Men close their minds
when see a naked truth.

Toba Beta

#14. Do you have a pet?'
Eugenia shook her head. 'I don't know very much about animals.'
'There's nothing much to know. You feed them; they love you.

Eloisa James

#15. Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

Gerald Seymour

#17. If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Tony Robbins

#18. Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

Jason Mraz