It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match.… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth,… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Acid is not for every brain … Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too… — Curtis Fuller Copy Share Image
I am naturally extremely proud to be selected as European Ryder Cup captain for 2016, european Ryder Cup has been a massive… — Darren Clarke Copy Share Image
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
God cannot change. He cannot be anything other than who He is. Out of His love and His promises, you were selected… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the… — Cindy Klassen Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
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