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
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
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
From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are a lot uglier than you think, plenty more selfish than you are ever likely to admit. So, you ignore what’s… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he… — Virginia Cowles Copy Share Image
Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tea absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken all… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of… — Anuj Copy Share Image
You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
“Society tried to teach me that children are by nature selfish, out-of-control, and demanding, that their goal is power and that they… — Hilary Flower Copy Share Image
We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
When you're in a relationship with someone who's selfish, what keeps you in it is the fact that when they shine on… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
No, I'm not going to shut up and dribble. I don't care if you take my contract, I don't care if you… — George Hill Copy Share Image
The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Why does EVERYTHING have to be about her , all of our conversation are about how her life suck or how she's… — Leila Copy Share Image
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to… — William Nicholson 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
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but… — George Ade Copy Share Image
“Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate… — David M. Allen Copy Share Image
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I can't bare to think how immature people can be. to be so disrespectful and so unappreciative. if anything you should shun… — Trence Bailey-Talisay Copy Share Image
