Select Quotes

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

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.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

I have selective hearing.

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

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.

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

Composition is selective improvisation.

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

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

True friends are families which you can select.

Love is exclusivity, selection.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

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.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.