To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
