Top 100 Variety Of Life Quotes
#1. A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.
Stefan Zweig
#2. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. What if choices were not viewed as right and wrong, but instead as just a variety of life experiences?
Staci Bartley
#5. We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.
Lewis Thomas
#6. In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.
Julie K. Norem
#7. To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant - inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
Daniel Dennett
#8. I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.
Elizabeth Strout
#9. We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.
Frederick Lenz
#10. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Leo Tolstoy
#11. Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.
Mireille Guiliano
#12. Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.
Paul Davies
#13. I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. Mulliken
#14. Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.
Paul Kurtz
#15. Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.
Phil Klay
#16. Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.
William Cowper
#17. Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
John Herschel
#18. In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.
Richard Branson
#20. The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
Tom Hooper
#21. Life is beautiful, forever! - In my quest to inspire positivity, I will encounter variety - Yet, I believe in the power of inspiration. Elysse
Elysse Poetis
#22. There are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
Freya Stark
#23. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#25. ... God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it's all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.
Rohinton Mistry
#26. Variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.
Theodor Fontane
#27. A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
W. G. Grace
#28. Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.
Martina Navratilova
#29. He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
Gregory Maguire
#30. Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man's audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.
Maxim Gorky
#31. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Johnny Carson
#32. Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.
Bryant McGill
#33. The fastest way to feel connection, a sense of how significant your life is, a deep sense of certainty and variety, and put yourself in a state where you can give to others, is to find a way each day to appreciate more and expect less.
Anthony Robbins
#34. When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
Hilary Mantel
#35. The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#36. I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.
Moran Atias
#37. In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Joseph Addison
#39. I was impressed by the variety of dreams and goals that life could offer.
Haruki Murakami
#40. Jane Jacobs observed in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: The larger a city, the greater the variety of its manufacturing, and also the greater both the number and the proportion of its small manufacturers.
Steven Johnson
#41. 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.
Martha Graham
#42. All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'
Isaac Newton
#43. I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.
Claire Denis
#44. 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.
Charles Horton Cooley
#45. It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.
David Tennant
#46. Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
David Lee
#47. Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is the essence of decadence. Freedom is slavery to chaos. Unity is peace, all thinking and acting as one.
Dean Koontz
#48. In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.
Tim Cahill
#49. As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre ... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?
Max Irons
#50. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view
Marcus Sakey
#51. They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.
Christina Engela
#52. To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#53. No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!
Cathy Williams
#54. all men are different, and it is the difference between them that creates the greatness, the variety, and the creative inspirations of life, as well as the tensions of social intercourse.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#55. The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. Wilson
#56. I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
Morgan Freeman
#57. There are a countless variety of hardships in any life," Kedean answered," ... only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.
Anihyr Moonstar
#58. Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells
Haruki Murakami
#59. So long as man is man, variety will still be the flavor of life.
Lin Yutang
#60. Variety is the Spice of Life. What Have You Varied Today?
S.J. Francis
#61. The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#62. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!
Jason Graves
#63. Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.
Fran Lebowitz
#64. Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.
Herrick Johnson
#65. Variety is definitely the spice of life but I love writing office romances (I was a secretary before I became a writer), because it's every girl's dream to meet that gorgeous hunky boss who sweeps her off her feet and takes her out of her dull routine.
Helen Brooks
#66. You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.
Christie Brinkley
#67. Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.
Joseph Alexander Leighton
#68. I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.
Toni Collette
#69. Beliefs can be roadways or roadblocks. A variety of beliefs can make life interesting and colorful.
James Van Praagh
#70. If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child
Julia Child
#71. The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now?
Ray Bradbury
#72. I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#73. When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated
with the social consequences we know all too well.
Lloyd Alexander
#74. Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation.
Jonathan Haidt
#75. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#76. The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson
#77. Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.
Elias James Corey
#78. If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.
Gene Roddenberry
#79. Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.
Brian Kernighan
#80. I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.
Siri Hustvedt
#81. The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. In an ideal world, no one would need a therapy. In this world, many people did but didn't get it for a variety of reasons. Liam believed some of them turned to the world of doms and subs.
Jane Davitt
#83. We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.
James Van Praagh
#84. Life was to be measured by the color and variety of its episodes,
Haruki Murakami
#85. There are so many things in life that divide us, that separate us and tear us apart, be it race, religion, creed, socioeconomic level, nationality or any variety of other factors. But running is something that we all share in common.
Dean Karnazes
#86. Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?
Billy Graham
#87. Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.
Robert Jeffress
#88. Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.
Doug Cooper
#89. Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
Jean Houston
#90. Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.
Chris Kilham
#91. Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
T. S. Eliot
#92. We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
Jim Rohn
#93. The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.
Anton Du Beke
#94. Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I woke myself up. I rediscovered passions of every variety. I forced myself to take a little time. I found a way to bring some of who I used to be into who I was.
Katherine Center
#95. The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.
Max De Pree
#96. Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.
James Freeman Clarke
#97. Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
Wislawa Szymborska
#98. If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.
James Herriot
#99. The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter
#100. No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life.
Garth Risk Hallberg
