Requisite Variety Quotes & Sayings

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman

You can always count on an asshole to be an asshole. — Angela S. Choi

It's my blood I carry. My soul I carry. My body. None of it belongs you to you, I said, striking my hand out and watching her do the same. — Kia Carrington-Russell

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father? — Cassandra Clare

From the severe, straight-backed posture to the impersonal grace of his cupped yellow head; from his detached blue eyes to the arrogance of his cheekbones, Laurent was complicated and contradictory, and Damen could look nowhere else. — C.S. Pacat

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence. — Michelle Franklin

If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work. — George Eastman

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake. — Amartya Sen

I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

How do you like your peace now, motherfucker? — John Scalzi

Conviction in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential. — Adam M. Grant

I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done. — Pele

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can. — Simon S. Tam

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed. — John Pilger

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that, that's not a statement, that's not politics, that's not activism, it's just criminal behavior. — Barack Obama

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing. — Alexandra Potter

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. — John Ruskin