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Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness. -- Robert Baden-Powell
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. -- Gustave Flaubert
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. -- Bob Woodward
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. -- Vivienne Westwood
The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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
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
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that. -- Debbie Harry
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
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. -- Vincent Canby
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. -- Elliott Abrams
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. -- Fritz Sauckel
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. -- Cecil Beaton
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. -- Vitruvius
I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were. -- Cate Blanchett
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. -- James Weldon Johnson
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. -- Noam Chomsky
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. -- Walter Rudolf Hess
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. -- David Suzuki
Survivor' is a game that's designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The greatest part is that you can go into the game as anyone you want, hold any job you desire, and portray any personality you can think of. -- Jenna Morasca
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year. -- Marcus Buckingham
According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as 'out of season.' Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial. -- Homaro Cantu
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring. -- Naturi Naughton
That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor. -- Michael Arrington
An idle life always produces varied inclinations. -- Lucan
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. -- Aeschylus
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear. -- Walt Whitman
The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting. -- David Mamet
Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic. -- Susan Faludi
My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. -- Madeleine Peyroux
Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were. -- Susie Orbach
I've been quite lucky - everything I've done has been quite varied. -- Konnie Huq
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. -- Buzz Aldrin
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned. -- Tim Roth
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really. -- Michelle Dockery
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. -- Edwin Newman
In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world--there is only one you. -- Marianne Williamson
I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied. -- Julian Bream
I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno. -- Andrew Flintoff
Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure. -- Maya Angelou
It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women -- Rosanna Arquette
It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women. -- Rosanna Arquette
A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do. -- Roald Amundsen
There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience. -- Sarah Baker
Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'. -- Kelly Perdew
Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation -- Nelson Mandela
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals. -- Michael Shermer
I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do. -- Anton du Beke
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. -- William O. Douglas
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. -- Thomas Browne
The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied. -- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. -- Sarah Brightman
Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically. -- Kumail Nanjiani
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. -- Kelly Gallagher
Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase. -- Scott Putesky
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense. -- Saint Augustine
Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences. -- Jonathan Zittrain
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. -- Loretta Young
I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. -- Mike Love
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed. -- Sergio Leone
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations. -- Judith Anderson
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. -- Stacy Keach
I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified. -- Rachel Perry
I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music. -- Oliver Sim
I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. -- Gwendoline Christie
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. -- Dorothy Dunnett
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms. -- George Washington Carver
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. -- Jasper Fforde
I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying. -- Liya Kebede
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. -- Arthur Schnitzler
Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied. -- Wilson Bentley
I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter. -- George Chuvalo
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 simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. -- Robert Genn
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
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
I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career. -- Douglas Booth
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 Dostoevsky
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
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
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
The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States. -- James A. Michener
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
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. -- Georg Brandes
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
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
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
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
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. -- Simone Weil
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
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
It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities. -- Andre Maurois
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
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
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
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
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
Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations. -- Cynthia Kauffman
What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader. -- Bill Hybels
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
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great. -- Helen Mirren
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country. -- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
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
I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world. -- Fred Bear
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
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

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