The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
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.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.
Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.
Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observa...
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.
Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.
