Top Selects Quotes
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William C. Bryant
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.
David Petraeus
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
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley
All Selects Quotes
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 
57% of people like this quote
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William C. Bryant 
54% of people like this quote
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 
53% of people like this quote
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.
David Petraeus 
53% of people like this quote
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley 
51% of people like this quote
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
John W. Foster 
47% of people like this quote
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.
Cavett Robert 
46% of people like this quote
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
Cavett Robert 
44% of people like this quote

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