Quotes about Variations

"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week."
-Bob Bratkowski

"Even though [the Hartford speech] was one of his standard speeches, every time he gave it there were variations."
-Clayborne Carson

"Imagine variations of 2004 occurring every year for 10 years."
-Roger Pielke

"The more we get, the more accurate will be our predictions. We have got 500,000 climate variations stacked up and ready to go. Each person who joins in will get a slightly different model for their computer to crunch, so the more people we get the more confident we can be of our results."
-Myles Allen

"We're going to go back and develop a plan. We may do different variations and bring them back to the board in April."
-Greg Wilder

"Lots of genes could be important -- genes that determine how you absorb a drug, variations in one gene involved in breaking down the drugs, variations in the way that you excrete a drug."
-Dr. Garret Fitzgerald

"You don't just want a mask image that will give you an acceptable pattern at exact focus and dose. You want the pattern on the wafer to be acceptable over a reasonable range of focus and dose errors and variations in resist."
-Andrew Moore

"[Wisdom is] the science of happiness or of the means of attaining the lasting contentment which consists in the continual achievement of a greater perfection or at least in variations of the same degree of perfection."
-G. Wilhelm Leibniz

"I think one thing we will see soon are some variations on methods that we've already seen, other forms of hormonal delivery."
-Lawrence Finer

"In all likelihood, the variations in gas flux depend on a combination of barometric pressure, wind speed, Earth tides and soil moisture, but we have not yet developed a model to simplify this complex system."
-John Rogie

"This is their version of events and we accept that and we are now going to let the investigation determine if there are any variations to that."
-Maj. Scott Lundy

"Humans are moving the world out of its natural variability. I don't think there are any serious questions of the scientific credibility that big temperature variations move together with greenhouse gases."
-Richard Alley

"As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs."
-Bobby Hatfield

"We are the only garden I know of that has such a diverse display as this. Other gardens have native areas, but they are largely variations on a theme."
-Paul Cox

"There may be variations on how the sheriffs run them."
-Cynthia Lorenzo

"We are going to have different variations of the same offense we have been running."
-Lane Larive

"Variations of this approach could allow us to use lasers and X-rays to understand how bonds change in chemical reactions while they are actually happening."
-William Mccurdy

"If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty û- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier."
-Bruce T. Lahn

"There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others."
-Alfred Adler

"We have found that these releases focus attention on short-term sales variations rather than the overall business trends that are critical to management decision and to quarterly and longer-term earnings results."
-Richard Sharp

"Wavy Gravy was the flavor that I cut my teeth on. There were over 750 variations before we hit the right flavor profile. That's got to be a record, got to be."
-Arnold Carbone

"The Antarctic Mosaic shows a lot of very subtle changes in the slope of the terrain that you cannot see from the ground. These subtle variations are important because they tell us the direction the ice is flowing now and they indicate where it has gone in the past. The surface roughness also tells us about the bed underneath the ice and whether the ice is sliding over the bed or frozen to it."
-Robert Bindschadler

"A&E departments now have to go the extra mile if they are to deliver the care that patients need and that means focusing on quality as well as waiting. This report suggests serious variations in the quality of care. Monitoring standards of quality must become a core part of the day-to-day management of these units."
-Anna Walker

"Consumers shouldn't infer that there is something particularly suspect going on if they see price variations. . . . If you saw the same price at every station it might indicate competition is working perfectly, but it isn't inconsistent with competition that there's a variety of prices."
-John Seesel

"As with all administrative matters, there are always several interest groups pulling for different variations of change or, for maintaining the status quo. Students are a central part of this institutionalized dialogue, but we are definitely not the only source of information or opinion that the administration must integrate into its decisions."
-Caitlin Sullivan

"Cats are one of evolution's most charismatic creatures. They can live on the highest mountains and in the hottest deserts. The problem is that if you look at the number of species they all seem to be variations on a theme."
-Ross Barnett

"Personally witnessed vignettes and variations of everyday life wherever it occurred."
-Dave Berg