Quotes of: Selected Keyword

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

The Essays: A Selection

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

Selected Essays

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Selected Non-Fictions

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

Selected Poems

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.

Selected Poems

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

Naguib Mahfouz

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

Nicole Williams

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

Stacy Keach

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

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

Karl Rove

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

Ernst Mayr

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Mo Ibrahim

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Richard Dawkins

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Cavett Robert

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.

Cavett Robert

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

Erin O'Connor

Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

Ivan Krastev

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

Gabriel Lippmann

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

Jim Parsons

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

Dan Buettner

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

E. O. Wilson