Quotes about selfish
selfish boredom bitterness
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. Cyril Connolly
selfishness may cold
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. E. W. Howe
selfish oedipus people
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason—instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods. David Simon
selfish caring indulge-in
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church. David Platt
selfish creativity ideas
Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas. David Lynch
selfish meditation world
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
selfish government names
Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated. Curtis White
selfish men deeds
Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish. David Gemmell
selfish mean writing
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. David Bowie
selfish kids inspire
When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them. Louis C. K.
selfish stories remember
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything. Kurt Vonnegut
selfish player people
I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player. Carmelo Anthony
selfish mean ambitious
To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?" Evo Morales
selfish stuff kind
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. Moby
selfish men trying
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering. Karl Marx
selfish sacrifice people
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.
selfish book reading
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy. Kajol
selfish inspiration
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish Mark Twain
selfish mean reality
he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape. Nicholas Sparks
selfish jealous conceited
Love is patient and kind.It's never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited.It is never rude or selfish.It does not take offence and is not resentful
selfish real struggle
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it! Neal A. Maxwell
selfish taken resentment
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
selfishness ordinary sin
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
selfish way rooms
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
selfishness world way
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
selfishness heavy hardest
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
selfish feel-good charity
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good. Maria Menounos
selfish world actresses
I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do. Maria Bello
selfish ambition men
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. Martin Luther King, Jr.
selfish trainspotting welsh
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. Irvine Welsh
selfish years wife
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. Greg LeMond
selfish thinking imagination
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption. Mary Wollstonecraft
selfish thinking today
Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life. Martha Beck