#variety

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cheers #criticism #democracy #permits #two

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. ↗

— Gilbert White

#district #examined #find #full #greatest

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

#balance #golden-mean #philosophy #science #thought

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. ↗

— Osbert Lancaster

#boredom #enthusiasm #much #occasioned #pointless

I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice because I feel like I've grown so much with my style and everything because I've been able to have fun with it. It's really fun for me. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#beautiful #beautiful clothes #because #been #clothes

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#beauty #different #different things #fashion #i

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bill #clinton #disappointed #done #fall

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other. ↗

— Alva Noto

#both #careful #certain #depth #each

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ↗

— Petrarch

#disgust #mother #sameness #variety

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#aspects #compilation #different #different aspects #dream