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Quotes About Selection

You paid your money and you picked your poison.
~ Elizabeth Bear
To translate all this into practical terms I would say that a well composed mixed hors-d'œuvre consists, approximately, of something raw, something salt, something dry or meaty, something gentle and smooth and possibly something in the way of fresh fish. Simplified though it is, a choice based roughly on these lines won't be far wrong.
~ Elizabeth David
if it doesn't matter what you do, then how do you choose what to do?
~ Elizabeth Engstrom
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
At the heart of Darwin's theory
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Durrant stopped off at a commissary of sorts to pick up a selection of his favorite snacks.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
In one of the most often-quoted passages of On the Origin of Species, Darwin wrote: It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers. Natural
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
we choose gifts that we ourselves love. The
~ Elizabeth Strout
Or. A golden word: "Or." Opportunities, rebirths, other roads.
~ Arthur Phillips
Era usted un buen fotógrafo porque fotografiar es encuadrar, y encuadrar es elegir y excluir. Salvar unas cosas y condenar otras. No todo el mundo puede hacer eso: erguirse juez de cuanto pasa alrededor. Nadie que ame de verdad puede dictar esa clase de sentencias.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Como acaba de leer el señor secretario, se trata de elegir entre nuestros compañeros a dos hombres buenos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed.
~ Ashley Gardner
How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line—how would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined—well, a good poem.
~ Ashley Hay
Jury selection continued with only the judge and the prosecutor participating.
~ Assata Shakur
the questions we submitted and others that the prosecutor submitted. After we went through the answers we were to pick or eliminate jurors, asking additional questions as needed. Some of the answers were so contradictory and such a study on the level of racism in amerika that it would take a book just to report on them. In one hundred percent of the cases we were able to tell whether the prospective juror was Black, white, or "other," just by reading the answers.
~ Assata Shakur
Slip me a piece of paper with 'Yes or No' on it, and I'll be the one to circle 'or' as my answer.
~ Aurora
Fred Allen cast his net wide, and the results look like a meeting of the board of directors in Candy Land. CoreFire floats at the back, obviously impatient with the selection process.
~ Austin Grossman
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
~ Author Unknown
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
~ B. F. Skinner
I was a judge for the 2014 NYMF season. I've done it for a few years. They send you a certain amount of scripts and scores, and you rank them.
~ Donna Lynne Champlin
As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.
~ Aldis Hodge
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
~ William Ernest Henley
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
~ Justin Trudeau
Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.
~ Brian Urlacher