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Quotes About Selection

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
~ Alexander Pope
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
~ Robert Grant
You are the one who must choose your place.
~ James Lane Allen
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
~ Pat Riley
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
~ Sir Richard Livingstone
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
~ Kenneth Burke
Of two evils, choose the less.
~ Anonymous
Of two evils, choose the prettier.
~ Carolyn Wells
Where bad's the best, bad must be the choice.
~ Anonymous
Both choices are painful, but only one is therapeutic.
~ Albert M. Wells
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
~ Vauvenargues
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
~ Mae West
I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.
~ Charles Darwin
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
~ Thomas Fuller
To govern is to choose.
~ Pierre MendesFrance
One white foot - buy him: Two white feet - try him; Three white feet - look well about him; Four white feet - go without him.
~ Old English Rhyme
I have no brand loyalty to toothpaste. It's absolutely a different brand every tube.
~ Lolly Adefope
Pretty much every show that comes on, I'll try to watch at least one episode of it. For me, there are three different levels. I watch the first episode, and if I love it, I'm lockin' it in for the rest of the season. If I'm not too sure about it, I will maybe tune in the next week. It it's just terrible, then I'm done.
~ Dule Hill
I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all five tunes but now I'm just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.
~ AJ Tracey
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
~ Billy Collins
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
~ Lynn Redgrave