Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I've been a club manager myself and know the demands and, from a selfish point of view, you want your players to… — Rob Page Copy Share Image
It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless.… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want you to realize that your the only one for me, and I will put all the other guys behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Often times you may find yourself in a relationship with a guy who looks like he is a mature adult, but then… — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Everything that I do, and everything that everyone does - you're just gobbling up everything around you. Everyone's selfish - whatever you… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
