Quotes About Selection

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

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

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.

I'm not loving you simply because I want to love someone. I'm loving you because my heart already chose you.

You can choose your friends, but not your relatives.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

in all species for which information is available, once the sex of the fetus is determined, more males than females are aborted.[120]

The human mind loves either/or choices. We prefer a choice of A or B. Yes or no. Chicken or beef. Simple choices give us a feeling of control, while open-ended choices give us a feeling of unease. Therefore we'd rather choose between than among.

When you are about to hand control of the senate and people of Rome, the armies, the provinces, the allies to one man alone, would you look to the belly of a wife to produce him or search for an heir to supreme power only within the walls of your own home? … If he is to rule over all, he must be chosen from all.

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

There are always choices. Some choices are just not easy to make.

Thus, fixed-price contracts tend to select the vendor most likely to get in trouble.

Beauty is beauty due to the cruelty of selection.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Bueno, la teoría de Darwin no deja de ser sólo una teoría —comenté—. Si, a estas alturas, hubieran podido demostrarla, sería la ley de Darwin.

You always have a choice. Life is full of choices

She said that, precisely. Try on. As if this was a clothes shop and Nora could choose a life as easily as a T-shirt.

That excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.