Selfishly Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to… — Adele
What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to… — Criss Jami
A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself.… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied… — James Whistler
I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives. — Jackie Mason
Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a… — Frederick Lenz
We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also… — Natalie Portman
I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly,… — Tom Hanks
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and… — John Wayne
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and… — R A Salvatore
And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a… — Alistair MacLeod
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity,… — Ayn Rand
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities… — Kevin Kelly
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make oneâ€™s center of life inside of oneâ€™s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with… — Edith Wharton
When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one canâ€™t insist on love or demand affection. youâ€™re finally left with whatever you have… — Charles Bukowski
What about a man who sits down to wonder Why life has cheated him? Thinks about his situation Hangs his head and cries Will we… — Mitch Albom
I like women who havenâ€™t lived with too many men. I donâ€™t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who havenâ€™t been rubbed raw by… — Charles Bukowski
Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isnâ€™t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their… — Richard Siken
Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself. — Michelle Sagara

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