Selected Quotes

192 quotes by 182 authors

I visited Eduardo Miuraâ€™s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home… — Ferruccio Lamborghini
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in… — Daniel Finkelstein
Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment… — Joel Greenblatt
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would… — C. E. M. Joad
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is… — Roger Ebert
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic… — Karl Abraham
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially… — Israel Shenker
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. — Kafu Nagai
The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear… — Dave Barry
I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of… — George Papandreou
To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a… — Oscar Pistorius
Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the… — Daniel D. Palmer
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69… — Robert Crippen
I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner… — Boomer Esiason
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in… — Carl Rogers
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and… — William Kunstler
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations… — Tom Clancy
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations. — Newton D. Baker

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182 authors contributed a total of 192 Selected Quotes, led by these top contributors: