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Quotes About Selection

Prison was better organised than a supermarket, with a larger selection of items and more customer-friendly opening hours. Including Sundays and public holidays
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
~ Seneca
Porque había chocolate, pero pedí fresa.
~ Senel Paz
But it is well to always remember that you have options, precisely as you did before your gift broke through.
~ Sharon Lee
It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose
~ Sheila Heti
When Jackie found something she really liked, she'd astutely buy it in several colors.
~ Shelly Branch
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
~ Edward Abbey
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
~ Guy Finley
Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.
~ Jack Klugman
When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.
~ James Bryce
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
~ Jeremy Taylor
A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
~ Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
~ Jodie Foster
Think about those who deserve your time and emotions. Because, valuable things should never be wasted and should be delivered with care to those who deserve it.
~ Rakesh Akuthota
Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
~ Eileen Myles
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
~ Ramakrishna
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
~ Paul Rand
One should choose one's physician with as much care as one chooses one's tailor. He paused a moment. Perhaps even more carefully.
~ Mary Balogh
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
~ Mary Doria Russell
the supposedly Darwinian belief in natural selection as a pervasive, irresistible cosmic force. Neo-Darwinian theorists offer this force as the final explanation, not just of evolution, but of all sorts of deep social, physical and metaphysical mysteries as well.
~ Mary Midgley
No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.
~ Mary Roach
There are some beings, whom fate seems to select on whom to pour, in unmeasured portion, the vials of her wrath, and whom she bathes even to the lips in misery.
~ Mary Shelley
It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.
~ Mary Stewart