Selfish Quotes

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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy — Joyce Meyer
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing. — Margaret Atwood
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and… — Theodore Roosevelt
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally… — William Carlos Williams
I wasnâ€™t sure which of us was being more selfishâ€”her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something… — Maggie Stiefvater
He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he… — Shirley Jackson
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a… — Brennan Manning
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify… — Stephen Kendrick
She just happened to feel like it. Wasnâ€™t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated… — Richard Yates
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? — Jeanette Winterson
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this… — David Mitchell
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham
Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45 — Sherry Argov
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because… — Richard Dawkins
The only selfish life is a timid one. — Jeanette Winterson
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy.… — Michel Houellebecq
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and… — Henry Rollins

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