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selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
selfish impulse humans
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. Reinhold Niebuhr
selfish character men
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. Woodrow Wilson
selfish sacrifice political
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.
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? Sarah Addison Allen
boredom enemy television
The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. David Nevins
boredom reason
It's boredom. No other reason than that. Brad Pitt
boredom risk ifs
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom. Clint Eastwood
boredom people london
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... Alexander McCall Smith
boredom painting habit
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring. Rene Magritte
boredom routine life-is
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. Timothy Leary
boredom wells ifs
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. Tallulah Bankhead
boredom people trying
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about. Tony Robbins
boredom achievement needs
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear. Tim Gunn
bitterness bitter feels
Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. Charles Buxton
bitterness grows
I grow old on my bitterness. Anne Sexton
bitterness strife
It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife Confucius
bitterness worst left
The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left Max Lucado
bitterness diagnosis hang happened hope island lots run since
Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time. Tom Watson
bitterness
But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things. William Wordsworth
bitterness kind painful
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. Grant-Lee Phillips
bitterness course debate democracy people
Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about ... people will have differences of opinion,
bitterness course debate
Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing,