Selective Quotations

Antibiotics vary greatly in their chemical nature, mode of action upon different organisms, and effect upon the animal body. The selective action of antibiotics upon bacteria and other microorganisms is known as the antibiotic spectrum. Some antibiotics are characterized by a very narrow spectrum, whereas others possess a wide range of activity.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy.

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about school. Simply selective in what he chose to do and say.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.

No, I didn't expect this to happen. Historically, shows do not win the Emmy in their first year, ... I've been very selective about what roles I've decided to take, from 'Party of Five' to 'Lost.'

People will be a lot more selective and pick up only those shares that are highly likely to get a boost from government policy.

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

We're selective about sound, we tune out things, or maybe you overhear something - and that's an area that's as yet totally unexplored.

Since implementation is always a wild card as China struggles to build nationwide uniformity in the legal system, there will always be concerns about inconsistent or selective application of the law.

Most of the time they don't even admit a problem exists, ... They point to selective statistics of crime going down.

She has gotten used to Division I pitching. She has been really selective at the plate.

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Many companies I've worked with find it much too easy to be less selective in their list pulls because it's so cheap. A longer-term approach to this could increase relevance and improve results fairly significantly.

I have selective hearing.

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

Jaime and all the other girls showed patience at the plate after that first inning. I always encourage them to be selective at the plate and they did that and seized the opportunities to score when there were offered.

Growing up in Baltimore, I've always thought of Hopkins as a selective school. The lacrosse championship has definitely added to the appeal.

Frankly we found it a sensational & selective account of peacekeeping.

Funds' selective buying helped support the index. The market extended its gains in late trade also due to some futures-related trading.

I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a selective part of my comment, I can see why they would be angry. If somebody thought I was advocating that, they ought to be angry. I would be angry.

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

With more than 75 cars in two classes on the track for this Saturday's race, our drivers have to be selective about where they make their moves or risk giving up the leads we've built so far this season.

I agree with what the prime minister said. We want selective immigration,

We look at selective takeovers ... but we won't act as a white knight for anybody.

He's got to be more selective in what he swings at. And if we can do something with the lineup and position him in a spot that can help him learn that, then that's what we're going to do. What we're looking at is the major-league level, and (there) he's going to have to be more selective at what he offers at than he is right now.

He has to be more selective and patient at the plate, like any other player breaking into the big leagues.

President Bush must fully disclose his participation in the selective leaking of classified information. The American people must know the truth.

People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

People are getting out of telecom equipment and seeking out more defensive areas. Chip and software stocks are seeing some interest but very, very selective buying as the recovery there is fragile.

(Our hitters) did a good job of being selective and when they got a strike they did a good job of putting the ball in play. Didn't hit a lot of balls real, real hard but we were getting them in play.

I think Laura could be more famous if she wanted to be. My impression is she is very selective with what she does.

I was very pleased with the way Tommy Wynn stepped forward and pitched us out of some jams. I thought we made quality plays to keep the game close, but we elevated too many balls. We have to be more selective and put the ball on the ground. These guys have great character and will push through.

I think people are hurting and we're in a market where there is more 'sell' advice than 'buy' advice. Buying is highly selective and still full of risk.

I think people are still not throwing money at everything that has a 'dot.com' on the end of it. I think slow and steady is going to win the race, especially if we have broad, selective and wiser investors.

I think you need to be selective in terms of the commercial banks. We've done a lot of studies in terms of credit quality in trying to figure out which ones really are at risk and which ones aren't. And I think that some of them are overly discounted at this point, like Chase Manhattan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo,

We are committed to excellent customer service, superior operating performance and solid credit quality as we continue our efforts to build shareholder value through our balanced growth strategy of strong internal growth, complemented by selective de novo and merger expansion.

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

We got the hits when we needed them and that certainly was an improvement over (Saturday). I think we were a little more patient and a little more selective at the plate looking for our pitches.

We haven?t hit the ball real well all year, and finally we?re starting to come around on that. We worked hard on that in the last week or two. We?re swinging at pitches that we could hit. We got more selective at the plate and it really paid off for us. Hitting strikes, driving the ball well.

Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.

While an uncertain market may overshadow the impact of some of our restructuring initiatives in the short-term, the implementation of various operating efficiencies and the selective refocusing of business units will allow us to strengthen our foundation for future growth in addition to maintaining a commitment to building long-term shareholder value,

While demanding rights for Muslims, the MCB wants to deny rights to lesbian and gay people -- both Muslim and non-Muslim. It sees no double standard or inconsistency in its selective approach to human rights.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

We realized our potential tonight. We took care of the ball and took selective shots. We did a nice job of moving our feet on defense and contesting shots.

Without a doubt this is going to be a have and have-not market. You are going to have to be selective in what you buy.

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?

Well I like to work, it's just being as selective as you are at the time, when there's maybe less product out there that's available.

You are going to see the IPO market underwriters really become selective in what they let out. The turbulence really could cripple the IPO market in the short-term.

We don't seem to be able to handle any pitchers we don't know well. He mixed up his pitches pretty good. He moved it around. Still, we weren't very selective or very patient at the plate against him.

There is definitely a need for some commercialism on our part ... but we do it in a most selective manner.

Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate fears.

We're going to be selective . And I'm not afraid to take that scholarship into the summer because we're not in dire straits. When we see the right thing to do, we'll do it.

We are seeing some signs of selective end market stabilization, which could serve as a precursor to a directional change in semiconductor revenues in the next few months.

We're not swinging the bat. I think at times we are too selective and waiting on the perfect pitch.

We don't know what these new variants do. But they might confer a selective advantage by improving cognitive abilities. This needs to be confirmed.

We'll still be looking to grow our international operations and to complement our brand portfolio with selective acquisitions, while there are still some great opportunities in North America.

The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in August and that due to political noise, if you will, we are not going to see a rate hike in October. But on the earnings front it is a different issue. Looking into 2000, our longer-term forecast, we've had two great years of earnings growth. We think it is going to be pretty difficult to show up with another year of 30-to-40 percent earnings growth. So, consequently, our message has been a lot more selective about the securities that we want investors to focus on.

There has been sort of a selective amnesia. If you look at the Will Smith movie 'Ali,' it virtually washed away Ali's history in the Nation of Islam. People are being told that Ali stood up for his beliefs, but they're not being told what those beliefs are.

You have to be selective about regionalism. Our court system seemed a perfectly logical place to start. And I believe it's working very well.

With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

We're seeing strength in technology and current optimism is based upon inventories worked down -- even Motorola indicated they're making progress in that direction, ... Techs are doing well and people will be combing their lists of stocks to buy for the long-term, but it's going to be a highly selective process.

We're still a market that's correcting, that's going to be awfully selective and there's still a bias to the downside.

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

We believe this property has the potential to achieve significant revenue growth through addressing deferred-maintenance issues, adding selective capital improvements and improving property-management operations.

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say: thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

With the opening of this store, Wal-Mart is adopting an active approach to understanding and meeting customer needs, particularly those of the selective female shopper.

And this led to an observation decades ago -- which was key -- that adult lamprey must be selective in how they pick streams, ... They only pick a few, and if you remove the larvae they don't seem to go in there.

CRH is a company that's consistently delivered value. It's got strong management and they've performed well organically and through selective acquisitions.

At this point in my career I have to be extremely selective about the amount of matches that I play in preparation of the US Open,

What needs to happen if you're going to tell an evolutionary story is you have to tell a story of gradual change and at each point there has to be some sort of selective advantage. The evidence is just not there that these processes can do the sort of design work that I am pointing to.

Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts to bolster the decision in a case that had already been made -- a decision that had been made to go to war,

The United Nations must have the possibility to enable all governments, civil society organizations, and NGO's from all over the world to freely travel to its headquarters, without the selective hindrances of the host country and to engage without any fear, in serious dialogue,

I've been more selective with pitches. I've made a couple adjustments. I've fine-tuned (my hitting) more.

The whole market will continue to be influenced by the war. For the most part, the tech stocks are still in a significant recession than the rest of the economy. It's going to be selective stocks that are going to be leaders.

While the job market is picking up, many companies remain selective when hiring IT professionals. Executives seek individuals with a deep understanding of the issues, challenges and tools specific to their industries, and who can contribute immediately to the company's success.

The Gore campaign strategy is crystal clear, ... Keep conducting selective recounts. Keep filing selective lawsuits, keep making false charges that divert attention, and keep refusing to accept any deadline until the results change.

While we are disappointed ... they specifically noted we are free to return to the federal courts to present our constitutional challenges to the selective and subjective manual recount process at an appropriate time in the future,

The selective shopper is increasingly becoming the focus at Wal-Mart.

There are rumors that the central bank has injected capital into selective brokerages and let them buy stocks, as current valuations of most blue chips are obviously too low.

The sci-fi, supernatural genre has a more selective appeal,

We feel that a good selective boycott on some of these oil companies may provide the tone that will get some action. The fat cats are getting fatter and we know that they are not concerned about the average working person or people in general. They're just concerned about profit making.

The reason that Blaine Rollins, the fund manager, did decide to close the fund is so he could continue to be selective in his stock picking.

We'll have to be more selective in where the phones are. Now instead of 450 phones we'll have only 150 and they'll be for the media, not the suites.

Two big surprises came out of this study. First, that AIDS is selective in how it attacks the brain. Second, drug therapy does not appear to slow the damage. The brain provides a sanctuary for HIV where most drugs cannot follow.

We are going to be very careful and selective on the number of matches we play against India, especially at off shore venues.

People are very selective right now about how they are choosing to spend their discretionary income.