Selects Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what… — David Petraeus
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and… — William C. Bryant
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must… — Paul Strand
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it… — P.G. Wodehouse
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people… — Anais Nin
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to… — Oscar Wilde
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality,… — Salman Rushdie
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but… — Peter S. Beagle
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. — Emily Dickinson
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy… — Elif Safak
The Soul selects her own Society. — Emily Dickinson
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people… — Douglas Coupland
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. — Cavett Robert
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. — Cavett Robert
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations. — Cavett Robert
My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech… — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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