Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

Alan Bennett

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Chris Christie

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

Dean Acheson

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

David Hume

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

David Brin

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

Arthur Peacocke

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Denzel Washington

I don't feel pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

Denzel Washington

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

Arthur Eddington

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

e. e. cummings

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

Anna Wickham

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Roger Vadim

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

Thomas Hardy

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Steven Tyler

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

Michel de Montaigne

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Jean Piaget

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Alan Parsons

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

David Weber

Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.

David Henry Hwang

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

Antonio Villaraigosa

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

William Shakespeare

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.

William Shakespeare

The due of honor in no point omit.

William Shakespeare

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

Paul Begala

When your mission is to "restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary

Chester A. Arthur

Honors to me now are not what they once were.