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Quotes About Selective

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.
~ George C. Wolfe
Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
~ Jim Backus
A bitch is more selective about her availability. She's available sometimes; other times she's not. But she's nice.
~ Sherry Argov
Books can be terrible snobs.
~ Simon R. Green
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.
~ Margaret Sanger
I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.
~ Nicole Williams
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.
~ Austin Kleon
puedes escoger lo que piensas.
~ Max Lucado
He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
~ Mercedes Lackey
Another modern development of relevance is the ubiquitous cable television coverage of the stock market. This frenetic lunacy exacerbates the already short-term orientation of most investors. It foments the view that it is possible—or even necessary—to have an opinion on everything pertinent to the financial markets, as opposed to the patient and highly selective approach endorsed by Graham and Dodd.
~ Benjamin Graham
Sometimes, if pious men are to be believed, God's mercies are curiously selective.
~ Bertrand Russell
The problem isn't that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs.
~ Susan Sontag
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.
~ Judith Guest
I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.
~ Judith Guest
We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
Some people don't like to remember," Vincent said. "Not even the good things?" "Especially not the good things.
~ Binnie Kirshenbaum
Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.
~ Harper Lee
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.
~ John Drane
Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.
~ Brittany Murphy
Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
~ Ivan Krastev
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
~ Stefan Zweig
The truth is, I was always picky anyway.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~ Wole Soyinka
Because his memory is so selective, he has no scars from prior experience," said Vinny.
~ Michael Lewis