Top 412 Selected Quotes & Sayings

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.

I was in the eighth standard and was selected as part of my school to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is an inferior level in just the way of Diana's long shot in the dark while drunk. That shot is inferior in a certain respect if too poorly selected as a hunter's archery shot, even if not quite as poorly selected as would be a shot aimed at the moon. Even if Diana's too risky shot turns out to be apt by attaining success through sublime archery dexterity, it is still inferior in the particular respect of being so risky and hence so poorly selected.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

I was studying in Jaipur when All India Radio was inaugurated. As a child artiste, I participated and was selected for a children's programme.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

There are few options that come by you and you get selected for when it comes to making a debut.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

It took a lot of work to go from the 'Not Top 10' to being selected for the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

Being selected for West Indies actually changed my life.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

The shutting out or boycotting of selected media cannot take place in Austria.

It's an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It's not something I take for granted.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

I am truly honored and humbled to have been selected as the co-winner for the 2020 Lou Marsh Trophy.

It's going to be a massive honour to represent your country, if selected, for the World Cup.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

People complain about Hollywood comedians, but I feel like I selected a tremendous group, ones who aren't fame-obsessed.

President Trump has selected qualified, conservative nominees to serve in the federal judiciary and his administration.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Whatever roles were being offered to me I selected from them and here I am.

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

I am truly honored to be selected as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador.

I am really happy to have been selected by Madame Tussauds.

It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.

When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the Under-16 or the Under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side.

Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.