Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

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.

Rose Macaulay

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

William Jennings Bryan

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Woodrow Wilson

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

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.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

Richelle Mead

I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri

Richelle Mead

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

Russell Brand

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Ronda Rousey

I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

Ronda Rousey

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

Keith Sinclair

Kinsey is a very gifted young man with great running and throwing potential. The offense employs size and the backfield has speed to overpower opponents. Defensively, the lions are a very aggressive group with multiple linebacker blitzes most of the time.

Rick Adelman

( Kevin Martin ) came in, he was aggressive and he made shots. If we're going to be successful, we're going to need those guys to step up off the bench. He really gave us a lift in the second quarter.

Sheri Baldwin

Kelsey and Emilie did a great job. Even though they are singles players, they are learning to play the net and are being more aggressive in the play.

Tom Marryott

Kate made some tough baskets. I'm happy she's getting to the line because that shows she's taking the ball strong to the basket. I also thought she was very aggressive on the glass.

Martina Hingis

Just wait until the next matches, I'll be even better. You have to have a high percentage of first serves otherwise these girls today are going to kill you. They're very aggressive and they attack right away.

Michelle Clayman

Greenspan's comments suggest the Fed won't be aggressive in raising rates in the near term, which is a positive for markets, but he's not saying anything that surprising,

Seth Shostak

Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows?

Lloyd Hulit

This was a good way to end the tournament for us. We were very aggressive at the plate. Everyone got a chance to play. We got outstanding performances from both Lauren (Hyland) and Val (Hackett).

Porter Goss

there are some very hard aspects of this that take longer. We are an overseas organization. We are an organization that requires what I would call sacrifice of quality of life. ... We are looking for specific people that we think will fit our needs. And that means an aggressive recruiting effort.