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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, May, Thought

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie

Attitude, Mind, Try

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian

Good, Envy, May

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple Grandin

Work, School, Children

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Maynard James Keenan

Change, May, Different

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Music, Great, Art

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

Sleep, Long, Sense

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
Colin Firth

Work, Job, Sometimes

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Jared Diamond

Human, Innovation, Lots

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
Samuel Hopkins Adams

Time, Sympathy, Human

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
Ella Maillart

Minds, State, Angle

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
Kenneth L. Pike

Society, Control, Another

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
Ernest Istook

Today, Parents, Violence

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
Tim Berners Lee

Simple, Giving, Different

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
Paul Farmer

Same, Reason, Culture

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.
Alan Ladd

Tired, Pretty, Voice

Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?
Toby Jones

Beautiful, Someone, Find

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Frances Wright

Knowledge, Mind, Human

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Bill Walsh

Few, Call, Early

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
Corin Nemec

Emotions, Role, Greatly

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
Pat Brown

Long, Weather, Around

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
Guy Finley

Change, Nature, Today

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
Lynn Margulis

Truth, Existence, Sexuality

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
Oscar Niemeyer

Work, Daily, Away

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.
Molly Ringwald

Life, Confidence, Person

There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone!
Christian Siriano

Love, Fun, Feeling

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Amartya Sen

Teacher, Idea, Researcher

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
Marie de France

Tell, Tune, Tales

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.
Johnny Winter

Love, Rock, Different

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
Billy Gibbons

May, Common, Skin

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