Quotes of: Being-selfish Keyword

Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats.

The Kills

Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.

Skye

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

Missin' (Novel)

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

My Religion

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Mastery

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Life of Pi

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

Sister

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Don’t shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

The Uncommon Reader

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)

Voice of Reason

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Wanda

Suicide is selfish. Don’t take your own life—take someone else’s.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.

Attachments

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

Memnoch the Devil

hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness, humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share.

Nikki Rowe

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

P. J. O'Rourke

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

Stephen King

what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings...,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn

Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza

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.

Tyler Cowen