Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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.

River Phoenix

We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

Richard Pryor

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

Tupac Shakur

We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?

Tracy McGrady

There's nothing about me that's selfish.

Richard Dawkins

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

Sarah Mlynowski

Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Anton LaVey

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

Anton LaVey

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Robert G. Allen

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

Wade Davis

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.

Greg Oden

Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money.