Selected Quotes

192 quotes by 182 authors

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and… — Walter Bagehot
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. — Alec Baldwin
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats,… — Dennis Banks
But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. — Stephen Breyer
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. — Stephen Breyer
You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. — Dick Cheney
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
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we… — Marcello Malpighi
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes… — Henry David Thoreau
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So… — Erika Slezak
The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow… — John Sparkman
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined.… — Timothy Leary
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected. — Paul Gascoigne
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end,… — Helen Prejean

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