Quotes About Selection

You pay your money and you takes your choice.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. The

Non è l'ambito delle scelte aperte all'individuo il fattore decisivo nel determinate il grado della libertà umana, ma che cosa può essere scelto e che cosa è scelto dall'individuo.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

To choose the right dog," he said, "you'll need to do your homework." "I finished my homework," said Amelia Bedelia.

My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?

In other words, one in every six inhabitants of the Libyan capital was kidnapped and made to disappear. The damage was more lasting because the Italian authorities selected the most noted and distinguished men: scholars, jurists, wealthy traders, and bureaucrats.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. "See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything.

because no matter how I denied it, some part of me knew what would choose." -Jude Duarte

I can't believe the land chose me.

The lady or the tiger? My lady, the tiger.

Plenty of things in life are superlatively uninteresting; so that it is one-half of art to select from realities those which contain the possibility of poetry

There would be no point asking Sarah because she was incapable of making a decision. If Cecilia asked her if she wanted tea or coffee, she would sit for a full minute, her forehead furrowed as she agonized over the pros and cons of each beverage, before finally saying, "Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give her a seizure.

Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give

before realizing that everyone would have a turn choosing a book, and so she'd probably end up having to wade through some awful, worthy tomes.

Callum has turned down the

Pamphlets can consist of anything from around twelve to about thirty poems. They allow us to select and reject pieces, to space out main themes, to consider the dynamics of sub-sections or sequences, and to decide on opening and closing poems. Like individual poems, they require titles and possibly epigraphs, which makes us contemplate the most important impression we wish to give from this grouping of our work.

It seems to me that life is about figuring out which things should be discarded and which things should be kept and put in their rightful place.

The convention debated at length over how the members of the Supreme Court should be selected, eventually settling on nomination by the president and confirmation by the Senate. By providing that federal judges "shall hold their offices during good Behaviour," the delegates intended to protect judicial independence.

I am tough on people. Most people don't know how hard I judge them because I don't say anything. All I do is cross them off the list. Forever.

Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.

You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

Generals have gone to war with far less deliberation than she gave to the choice between the pear tart or the vanilla soufflé.