Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

River Phoenix

We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

Richard Pryor

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

Tupac Shakur

We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?

Tracy McGrady

There's nothing about me that's selfish.

Richard Dawkins

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

Sarah Mlynowski

Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Russ Miller

The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.

Novak Djokovic

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Jodi Picoult

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Eva Green

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Pat Barker

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Kristin Cavallari

I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

C. S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Brian Miller

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Sir Sidney

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

E. O. Wilson

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

David Mamet

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.