John Selden Quotes

Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

John Selden

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• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Defeat
  • Thoughtful
  • Twitter

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Management

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • You
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • People
  • Read
  • News

• There are many paths but only one journey.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Journey
  • Many
  • Paths

• The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind

• And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Why
  • Wife
  • Christian

• 'Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Stock

• My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. Then beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, Until the wind blew.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Wind

• When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • People
  • Long

• When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Money
  • Job
  • Father

• To know the world, one must construct it

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • World
  • Know
  • Construct

• I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Job

• Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

  

  John Selden