Quotes About Selection

Intelligent enough to realize that there are many other different melodies but wise enough to choose one I can skate to.

Your choices become your destiny choose very precisely.

Life is matter of choices, either you accept it or walk away and find a new choice.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.

Nostalgia or the height of bad faith: when its target is time, it performs a ruthless selection; forgetfulness is its secret and particularly effective weapon, a sharp knife that cuts ever deeper into the layers of memory and invents a past that never existed.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

There is a degree of resemblance between the women we love at different times; and this resemblance, though it devolves, derives from the unchanging nature of our own temperament, which is what selects them, by ruling out all those who are not likely to be both opposite and complementary to us, who cannot be relied on, that is, to gratify our sensuality and wound our heart. Such women are a product of our temperament, an inverted image or projection, a negative of our sensitivity.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel... I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.

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It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

Could it be that Americans are a restless people, a mobile people, never satisfied with where they are as a matter of selection? The pioneers, the immigrants who peopled the continent, were the restless ones in Europe. The steady rooted ones stayed home and are still there. But every one of us...are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Wouldn't it be unusual if we had not inherited this tendency? And the fact is that we have.

Finally, although they didn't want to, Hazel and Jones were chosen to call on Doc. They found him working over a tide chart while he ate a chicken stew of which the principal ingredient was not chicken but sea cucumber. They thought he looked at them a little coldly. "It's Darling," they said. "She's sick.

Less than two weeks after the selection of the architects had been made, the directors awarded the building contract to Starrett Bros. & Eken.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.