Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“Being selfish isn’t choosing yourself over other people. Being selfish" is expecting other people to choose you over themselves.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences.… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
“Three cars for two grown-ups, I thought. What a country. What a couple selfish dicks my wife and her new husband were.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“You know, every once in a while, it's okay to just live for yourself." Kier held up a hand, forestalling her objection.… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
99% of humans are ruthless inconsiderate selfish greedy monsters. 1% of them have feelings and is considerate. The fact that there is… — Dav Mar Copy Share Image
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
He was my hero, though it was probably for the wrong reasons. Because he could hit people harder than anyone else, and… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them… — James Scott Copy Share Image
“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“More clothes, more cars, more cash, Just how much will you consider enough! Till you put a cork on cocky abundance, Not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“If I were truly being heroic, I'd actually mean what I'm saying right now. But I don't. I want you to stay… — Kristen Lippert-Martin Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used for selfish reasons. I would list those reasons, but they’re mine—all of them. Mine, mine, mine, mine,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better… — Helen Slater Copy Share Image
I'm learning more different ways to deal with things. You know what I mean? So, I gotta be selfish and help myself… — Eddie Kingston Copy Share Image
A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Love makes you selfish, liar, cheater, loose friends, loose family, and finally loose yourself, Still people fall in love... strangely amazing!! — Jcalex Maneja Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
