Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective. — William Barr Copy Share Image
I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
“I am, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to run around screwing the first thing that winks my way. I’m trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now… — Regina King Copy Share Image
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
“selective attention,” also called “selectivity bias”—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Because your child is your first priority, your're more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience.… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years. I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting… — Astrud Gilberto Copy Share Image
“God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became… — Michael Tomasky Copy Share Image
