For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
John Drinkwater

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
Josiah Royce

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
Nicolas Malebranche

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Walter Pater

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
Muhammad Yunus

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
Murray Gell-Mann

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Desiderius Erasmus

I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
Carl Karcher

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
Kim Elizabeth

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
Abbe Pierre

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
Lynn Redgrave

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
Harrison Birtwistle

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
Peter Sotos

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
Susan Sontag

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.
Sonny Rollins

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
Bob Schieffer