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Quotes About Select

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.
~ Jim Parsons
I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.
~ Eriq La Salle
You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
~ John Ortberg
It is obvious', says Hadamard, 'that invention or discovery, be it in mathematics or anywhere else, takes place by combining ideas....The Latin verb cogito for to think etymologically means to shake together. St. Augustine had already noticed that and also observed that intelligo means to select among.
~ Arthur Koestler
Sometimes, of course, the difference between one option and another isn't especially significant.
~ Atul Gawande
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
~ Ayn Rand
But if I were given a choice - of all centuries - I'd select last the curse of being born in this one. And perhaps, if I weren't curious, I'd choose never to be born at all.
~ Ayn Rand
I was at a very select gathering in a hunting lodge in Leicestershire. How the devil she knew where to find me I really don't like to think. It's a sad day when one can't even escape to a select, supposedly secret orgy without having one's mother summon one—without a verbal blink.
~ Stephanie Laurens
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
~ Stephen King
Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.
~ Moms Mabley
People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy!
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Strange, sometimes, how you make a particular choice. When it's not a specific thought or line of argument that decides you, but more a set of jumbled sensations that changes your mind.
~ Jonathan Stroud
In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Odd what sticks to our memory, sort of an arbitrary choice made by the subconscious.
~ Gregg Loomis
The day Henry made a choice.....that some men are just too interesting to die.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
~ Jeremy Taylor
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
~ Walter Savage Landor
But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you.
~ Barack Obama
The choice of when to be a chooser may be the most important choice we have to make.
~ Barry Schwartz
Crime is one of the many methods justice may select.
~ Steve Aylett
Why am I permitted to apply racial criteria when I select a spouse but not when I select a personal assistant?
~ Steven E. Landsburg
discriminate between the
~ Steven Pinker
Lo peor de las decisiones es que siempre se deben tomar, como mínimo, dos. Y se tome la que se tome, queda la incertidumbre de qué habría sucedido en el caso de tomar la otra.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra