Quotes about Various
The trials that those men do meet with, Who are obedient to the heavenly call, Are many and various, and suited to the flesh, And come, and come, and come again afresh; That now or some time else we by them may Be taken, overcome, and cast away. O let the pilgrims, let the pilgrims then, Be vigilant and quit themselves like men.
- John Bunyan
Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various and manifold, and exceeding immense.
- St. Augustine
To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
- George Eliot
T]he Meyricks, whose various knowledge had been acquired by the irregular foraging to which clever girls have usually been reduced...
- George Eliot
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
- Soren Kierkegaard