Selected Quotes

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.

We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experience is most likely to make a difference.

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget

Forget it. Never explain

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Used every man according to his capacity.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers

Long have I dwelt forgotten hereIn pining woe and dull despair

The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.