Select Quotes

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do it, not to worry about it. Feel you would be doing it without the money.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I'd be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

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I'm just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.

You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

What you choose also chooses you.