Top 60 Selects Quotes
#1. One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#2. Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William C. Bryant
#3. The photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.
Subcomandante Marcos
#4. America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
Sukarno
#5. The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.
George Stillman Hillard
#6. I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.
Virgilia Peterson
#7. Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
John W. Foster
#8. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
#9. God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley
#10. The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Chapter 12 title)
Helen Oyeyemi
#11. No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#12. We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. true art, be it painting or novel or drama or music, selects and arranges.
Guy Consolmagno
#14. In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.
Ellen Galinsky
#15. Ignorance clarifies. It selects and omits with placid perfection.
Kate Morton
#16. While people pray in temples, God sends prophets with unacceptable appearances and by doing so easily selects the elect
Daniel Marques
#17. Magic doesn't mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can't create them. Difference is, one is the will power and the other is temptation. Magic selects the eligible but can't give them the proper direction.
Anurag Bhatt
#18. I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.
Charles Darwin
#19. Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.
Gregory Benford
#20. Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
Mark Hodder
#21. There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
Calvin Trillin
#22. When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#23. The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.
Franz Grillparzer
#24. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
Egon Friedell
#25. A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.
Jonathan Galassi
#26. Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.
Stephen Hawking
#28. What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes.
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Charles R. Swindoll
#29. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Charles Darwin
#30. Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know.
David Levi Strauss
#31. History is never the simple recounting of the past as it really was. It is inevitably an interpretation of the past, a retrospective vision of the past, which is limited both by the sources themselves and by the historian who selects and interprets them.
Timothy George
#32. An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
Anton Chekhov
#33. Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
Albert Parsons
#34. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.
Napoleon Hill
#36. An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
Thomas A. Edison
#37. Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
J. K. Bharavi
#38. Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.
Seb Kirby
#39. people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me. Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
#40. Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
T. E. Hulme
#41. It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
David Landes
#42. Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Cavett Robert
#43. Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
Seneca The Younger
#44. Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
Galen Rowell
#45. The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.
David Finckel
#46. For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.
James G. Frazer
#47. Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.
Herbert A. Simon
#49. What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.
Arthur Koestler
#52. I want you to know that I am one of the more fortunate people in life. There aren't too many of us that somebody selects and says, 'You know, that guy ought to be an umpire.' That's what happened to me.
Doug Harvey
#54. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.
Washington Irving
#55. Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.
Timothy Gowers
#56. Happy indeed are those days when the book-lover has been accorded the freedom of some ancient library. A delicious feeling of tranquillity pervades him as he selects some nook and settles himself to read.
P.B.M. Allan
#57. The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend.
Will Durant
#58. If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.
Paul Strisik
#59. It has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.
P.G. Wodehouse
#60. checkbox : It selects the elements whose type attributes have been set to radio. SELECTING
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