Selected Quotes
192 quotes by 182 authors
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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
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
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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
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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
— Stephen Breyer
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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
— Stephen Breyer
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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.
— Dick Cheney
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
— Walter Raleigh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.
— Paul Gascoigne
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Selected Quotes
182 authors contributed a total of 192 Selected Quotes, led by these top contributors: