“The mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“In Germany, they treated you with yourself. You were guilty of hiding you own cure inside of you, you selfish fuck.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Being single isn't all that bad, as you can be selfish and focus on yourself and your career. — Aditya Roy Kapur Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart. — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned about this sport is that it's OK to be selfish at times. — Travis Browne Copy Share Image
“Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this… — David Walton Copy Share Image
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids,… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“We've all made selfish, bad decisions We've all tried dishing out the blame Convinced our selves of our own actions My problem… — Avenged Sevenfold Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image