Select famous quotes

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Book #Pages #Select

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
-- Antony Beevor

#Mean #Thinking #Select

True friends are families which you can select.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#True Friend #Select

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
-- Bob Ross

#Art #Select

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
-- Confucius

#Teacher #Select

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
-- Dan Buettner

#People #Lifestyle #Select

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.
-- Dean Martin

#Girl #Wish #Select

Free markets select for winning solutions.
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Winning #Select #Free Market

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
-- George Eliot

#And Love #Enough #Select

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
-- Hans Jonas

#Men #Blind #Select

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

#People #Shapes #Select

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
-- Isabel Allende

#Memories #Fiction #Select

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
-- Joseph Pulitzer

#Want #Select #Committees

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

#Tonight #Select #Interest

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
-- Louisa May Alcott

#Book #Good Friend #Select

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Happiness #Thinking #Select

Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick...
-- Michael Ammar

#Magic #Cards #Select

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
-- Michael Behe

#Natural #Select #Function

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Literature #Select #Nobel

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Names #Select #Thousand

I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.
-- Prince William

#Different #Brilliant #Select

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.
-- Richard Attenborough

#Art #People #Select

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
-- Tommy Lasorda

#Thinking #Like You #Select

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.
-- Jonathon Keats

#Technology #Needs #Select

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.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell

#President #Transition #Select

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.
-- E. Merrill Root

#Select #Fastidious

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
-- Roger Sherman

#President #Would Be #Select

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.
-- Rogers Hornsby

#Trouble #Fame #Select