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.

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

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.

Daniel Smith

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Thomas Szasz

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Tanith Lee

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Michael Fox

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Brian Tracy

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Bruce Lee

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Anthony Hopkins

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Ann Brashares

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Aleksandar Hemon

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

Chuck Palahniuk

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Chuck Jones

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Anna Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Ambrose Bierce

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

John Gibbons

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.

Albert Einstein

We are here for the sake of others

Robert Frost

All great things are done for their own sake.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Steve Erickson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Jeffrey Jones

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.