#select

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

#blood #doing #end #give #giver

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet. ↗

— George William Norris

#government #great #harding #mr #possession

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#bizarre #doing #done #everyone #going

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. ↗

— Barack Obama

#criterion #disabled #empathy #gay #got

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#came #clean #commissioner #conference #downstairs

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#clarifies #first #highest #historian #ignorance

Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#natural-selection #change

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. ↗

— Sam Harris

#evolution #inheritance #natural-selection #science #faith

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#because #being #few #i #i am

If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense. ↗

— Tommy Newberry

#the- #freedom