Quotes About Selection

People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance.

I love everybody but I don't have to hire everybody.

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

The animals we raise for food today are eaten not because they are notably delectable or nutritious or a pleasure to be around, but because they were the ones first domesticated in the Stone Age.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Wenn wir ein Lebewesen damit beauftragen wollten, sich in der Einsamkeit des Kosmos um Lebendiges zu kümmern, zu überwachen, was daraus wird und wohin es geht, sollte man für diese Aufgabe keine Menschen auswählen.

Hobson's choice is sometimes taken to mean a dilemma or difficult decision, but in fact means no choice at all. It derives from a sixteenth-century Cambridge stable-keeper named Thomas Hobson, who hired out horses on a strict rotation. The customer was allowed to take the one nearest the stable door or none at all.

It may sound as if I'm cherry-picking

you can pick what you want from the definition, like picking flowers from a garden

It ain't my cup of meat.

You always have a choice. It's just that you have to pay the price that goes along with your choice.

history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for? Every day is the day we should fear from or hope from. One moment Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection, We say, that was the day. The critical moment That is always now, and here.

What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for? Every day is the day we should hear from or hope from. One moment Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection, We say, that was the day. The critical moment That is always now, and here. Even now, in sordid particulars The eternal design may appear.

If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice.

I don't know what to do,' he said at last. 'I don't know what will happen.' 'If you did, you would only be making a selection, not a choice.

Bad things always happen when an animal is overselected for any single trait. Nature will give you a nasty surprise.

Whaddya think, luv, Lair of the White Worm, Evil Dead II, or Night of the God King: The Return?

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

If you don't want them, I can find someone else who would." And then, as though shocked, as though she heard the echo of those words, the implications reverberated inside herself. She could find someone else.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob