Quotes About Selection

Multitudes in the valley of decision.

To crop or not to crop, that is the question.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

Hobson's choice

One among a thousand.

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

What's it going to be then, eh?

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

To select one word was to commit to a single path when the maze contains thousands.

His choice of books was too diverse to tell me anything: literary fiction, thrillers, classics… everything from Dan Brown to Dostoyevsky.

A tux can look good on anyone, provided they choose the right kind one for their body type.

As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

Puppies and kittens are both great. Cats and dogs are not for me.

One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man - it's like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it's beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on?

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.

Consistency, goals, and assists - that gets you confidence and puts the thought in the manager's head that he can't drop you.

My team puts forward a selection of dresses, and I choose the one I feel most natural in.