Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

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

Richard Dawkins

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

Roz Chast

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Tyler Cowen

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

W. E. B. Du Bois

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all,

Walter Scott

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Jose Rizal

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Robbie Amell

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard P. Feynman

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

Richard Jenkins

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richard Dawkins

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Richelle Mead

At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment. "We can't..." He told me. "I know," I agreed. Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time I knew there would be no turning back.

Richelle Mead

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

Rose McGowan

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

William S. Burroughs

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Ashley Giles

It is a lot worse sitting up there than it was in the middle,

Shelley Berman

When he was sitting with you, would he be witty? No,

George Hamilton

Well, you were sitting practically on Len's lap.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Barry Zito

He was sitting all over it. It would have bounced in the dirt. ... Obviously, it was what he was waiting for.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Tyler Perry

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.