Selterm Quotes & Sayings

When enough people believe something of you, it can distort your view of yourself. We mimic the judgments of others. It would take a very strong person indeed to resist the effects of so much ill will. — Jeff Wheeler

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. — David Del Tredici

Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176). — Alejo Carpentier

Don't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service. — Lillian Vernon

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx. — Marilynne Robinson

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then. — Oscar Pistorius

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P. J. O'Rourke

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. — Frederic Bastiat

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon. — Lindsey Graham

Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'. — Jaime Escalante

The idea of living forever makes me uncomfortable, and at this point I've lived long enough and seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that there's always a catch. — Mara Wilson

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully. — Richard Appignanesi

She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am one, and they are all. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky