The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.
Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've always thought of them more as formulas- full of variables, but always the sum of their parts.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
The heated public discourse about the frequency of false rape allegations often makes no reference to actual research. When the discourse does make reference to research, it often founders on the stunning variability in research findings on the frequ...
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.
Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
