Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Pitt

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Jane Goodall

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

Caprice Bourret

Men tend to be selfish.

C. S. Lewis

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Barry Goldwater

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

Antonio Gramsci

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

Dale Carnegie

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

Claude C. Hopkins

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

Mark Richardson

Any form of exercise that raises your heart rate and leaves you slightly breathless, if done on a regular basis, is extremely beneficial.

Josua Mata

As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly.

Melanie Krauthoff

As long as you don't have a high fever or trouble breathing, you can exercise when you are sick.

Stanley Hauerwas

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.

Dallas Anderson

And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.

Alvin Hellerstein

The snuffing out of sound is not a permissible exercise under the First Amendment,

Kayle Storm

Running is for people that can't manage their time well enough to walk somewhere.

Don Ameche

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

David Finkelhor

They are a group of kids who do not exercise very good judgment about who it is wise to have sexual relationships with,

Frank Chumbley

A year ago I had the luxury of being able to project 90 percent of our lineup in the off-season.

Ginger Reeder

This is not like the submarines you see in the movies. It's really a luxury yacht that dives to 1,000 feet.

Tom Inman

This is probably a more seasoned team. It's a luxury to have all the firepower we do.

Nick Saban

That's not a luxury that we have right now in this particular draft.

Glenn Patrick

That's (full roster) a luxury we haven't had in so long.

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Diana Vreeland

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

Coco Chanel

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends