Select Quotes

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

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.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

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

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

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

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

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

"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

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

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

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.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

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

She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Free markets select for winning solutions.