#select

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life. ↗

— Diana Ross

#choose #coming #going #heart #i

Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#literalism #r-alan-woods #selective-literalism #design

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#companions #conversation #enjoyment #few #first

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#gives #seldom #selects #translation #true

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#chosen #enjoyable #few #friends #good

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#believe #cabinet #context #contribute #could

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Henry Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#apt #being #complex #consideration #his

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#both sides #emotional #jury #looking #manipulate