Top 531 Select Quotes & Sayings

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.

That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

I select movies keeping in mind that my family should be able to watch it.

Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won't put things on the menu unless they've tried it four or five times. So you just naturally select a certain kind of chef, people who maybe don't win a bunch of challenges but they hang around.

Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

True friends are families which you can select.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them. It was an amazing time.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly.

Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.

I grew up with a very small, select group of friends that I kept my whole life.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

I really want to prove to people that I'm capable of leading a franchise, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the No. 1 team to select me.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

I am always available for selection for Davis Cup. If TA select me, then great. If TA does not select me, then there's not too much I can do.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they should be. As an actor you develop how angry you should be. You select how angry you should be. You listen to the other actor and then you react. In film, sometimes the other actor isn't even there. You have to play the scene. What I do is I call on my experience on the stage. I play the scene and I hope that I reach a certain level of integrity because that's what I learned on the stage.

It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

I am glad I was in a position to select films that interested me.

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that they don't vary, and people don't select.

For a given match, I can only select 18 players and at most 14 would play.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.