Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Dorsett

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Tom Waits

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...

Stephen Hawking

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

Stendhal

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Stendhal

Our true passions are selfish.

Shirley Jackson

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

Pope Francis

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Ralph Steadman

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Ramakrishna

There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

Ramakrishna

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

Rainbow Rowell

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

Tennessee Williams

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

James Patterson

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

James Martineau

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

James Madison

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

Stephenie Meyer

Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

Stephenie Meyer

I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

Stephenie Meyer

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

Stephen Colbert

You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.

Stephen Colbert

Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality.

Sonia Sotomayor

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

Sophie Kinsella

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

Thomas Hardy

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...

Russell Brand

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Roz Chast

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

Rose Kennedy

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

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.

Ronda Rousey

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Steve Winwood

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

Veronica Roth

About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.