Handpicked Quotes

#1. These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.

Eric Schneiderman

#2. I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

Erin Wasson

#3. When the court that handpicked you to be president tells you you've overstepped your bounds, you've overstepped your bounds.

Jon Stewart

#4. Yeah, okay, that's how I was leaning. I thought about Oberon, how she ran her department, all those cops - and used her handpicked to run her dirty cop sideline.

J.D. Robb

#5. When they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.

Ilona Andrews

#6. Always he was on the lookout for the one who would challenge him. He heard the prophecy and he leapt into action, with the result that he not only handpicked the man most likely to finish him, he handed him uniquely deadly weapons!

J.K. Rowling

#7. Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do something, you goddamn do it or risk having him punch you in the butt so hard your poop stays inside you forever out of fear of possibly running into Roosevelt.

Daniel O'Brien

#8. Overlooked by everyone, but handpicked

Lysa TerKeurst

#9. Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God.

Joel Osteen

#11. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Voltaire

#12. Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Alexander Pope

#14. Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

Leigh Bardugo

#15. Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Herbert Hoover

#16. I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs ...

Cesar Aira