Select Quotes - page 5

In grandchildren I am the richest man that lives to-day: for I select my grandchildren, whereas all other grandfathers have to take them as they come, good, bad, and indifferent. (Mark Twain)
When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
The call to the cloister demanded of Luther the complete surrender of his life. But God shattered all his hopes. He showed him through the Scriptures that the following of Christ is not the achievement or merit of a select few, but the divine command to all Christians without distinction. Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the "religious." View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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. View quote
Isabel Allende
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. View quote
Boris Sidis
Nothing is more uncommon than a very large or a very small man; and this applies generally to all extremes, whether of great and small, or swift and slow, or fair and foul, or black and white; and whether the instances you select be man or dogs or anything else, few are the extremes, but many are in the mean between them. View quote
Socrates
[About Ada] For none of the evidence we have so far can inspire confidence that this language has avoided any of the problems that have afflicted other complex language projects of the past. [...] It is not too late! I believe that by careful pruning of the ADA language, it is still possible to select a very powerful subset that would be reliable and efficient in implementation and safe and economic in use. View quote
C. A. R. Hoare
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We select our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our residences on the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade in perfectly good cars for later models, not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can afford it. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election. View quote
James Dobson
The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. (Amitabh Bachchan)
Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest. View quote
Warren Farrell
Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Vietnam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices . View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job. View quote
Marie Kondo
Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but "be holy.”... "Everyone who names the name of the Lord” is called to live a holy life! View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!'' View quote
Richard M. DeVos
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts. View quote
Hilary Mantel
I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as "forbidden knowledge": methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know. View quote
Barry Eisler
When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels. (Bryan Cranston)
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. View quote
Algernon Blackwood
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths. View quote
Josephine Hart
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow? View quote
Karen Marie Moning
In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives. View quote
Cass Sunstein