Quotes of: Selfish-man Keyword

Gillette--The best a man can get." I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a ...

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If yo...

Lois McMaster Bujold

Alexander Andrews: [Alexander has figured out Ellie is in love with another man] Who is he? Ellie Andrews: I don't know very much about him, except that I love him. Alexander Andrews: Well, if it's as serious as all that, we'll move Heaven and Earth ...

It Happened One Night

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

Crossing Lines

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

Dracula

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Indiana

Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All

Why Leadership Sucks: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Herbie Mann

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Stefan Molyneux

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Mwai Kibaki

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

Lynn Barber

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Anne Sullivan

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Ashley Greene

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Mortimer Adler

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

Joshua Bell

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Faraaz Kazi

The alternative to rule is not freedom but the unconstitutional (and often unconscious) tyranny of the most selfish member.

C.S. Lewis

Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.

J.W. Lord

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

Jennifer Grant