Selected Quotes

192 quotes by 182 authors

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most… — Henry Walter Bates
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to… — Thomas Jefferson
Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care — Napoleon Hill
George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan… — Tina Fey
We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent. — Michelle Hunziker
On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money. — Chuck Feeney
The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit. — Franz Liszt
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,… — Thomas Jefferson
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us… — Ram Dass
Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year,… — Conan O'Brien
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by… — Burton Malkiel
In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. — Bill Jenkins
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number and types of… — Hans Alfred Nieper
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to… — Samuel Wilson
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in… — Adam Rickitt
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… — Paul Dirac
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of… — Stanislav Grof
But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and… — Lois Lowry
In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and… — Nomi Prins
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths… — Richard Dawkins

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