Quotes About Being Selected

#1. There is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be NATURALLY SELECTED.

Charles Darwin

#2. We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

Carl Rogers

#3. So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.

George Santayana

#4. The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Mark Twain

#5. Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

Henry Walter Bates

#7. Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.

Gabrielle Dennis

#8. After the Germans and Austrians, the Rumanians were the biggest killers of Jews. They were more inclined to inflict beatings and torture, or to rape, the officers being worse than the men since they selected the prettiest Jewish girls for orgies.

Paul Johnson

#9. Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Words weren't always easy when things mattered.

Nalini Singh

#11. The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

Terence McKenna

#12. Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

Henri Poincare

#13. We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.

Suzanne Somers

#14. I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

Lavrenti Lopes

#15. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

Carlo Rovelli

#16. Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Kevin Johnson

#17. He'd become so accustomed to having her there, right there next to him, that he found he could no longer go the day without needing to see her. Even the space of a few hours made him feel restless and dissatisfied.

Alissa Johnson

#18. In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Nadine Gordimer

#19. It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

Flora Thompson