Quotes by category:Select

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

Isabel Allende

select memories fiction

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

Jakob Dylan

select music-is people

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

John C. Bogle

select investing fund

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

Jonathon Keats

select technology needs

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

Joseph Pulitzer

committees select want

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

Joyce Carol Oates

david-thoreau select classic

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

Kiersten White

select tonight interest

The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

Kin Hubbard

select

I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

Lawrence O'Donnell

select transition president

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Marcus Aurelius

select happiness thinking

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Marcus Aurelius

select care thinking

Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick.

Michael Ammar

select magic cards

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Michael Behe

select arise natural

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Naguib Mahfouz

select nobel literature

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Neil Jordan

select nice writing

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

Niki Lauda

select pilots

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

Noam Chomsky

select grammar adequacy

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

Paulo Coelho

select thousand names

I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

Prince William

select brilliant different

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Plato

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