Quotes of: Selfish Keyword

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

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Jack Kevorkian

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

Selfishness even binds many people,but blindly without having any liking for one another.

Anuj Somany

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

Wilt Chamberlain

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace. Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Zarina Bibi

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned...

Red Country

Obviously, the choice between human selfishness and divine Selfishness is not about leaving or not leaving a relationship. More important are the day-to-day opportunities in the course of relationship. It is really the choice of living from the heart...

Joyce Vissell

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Flight Behavior

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

Rousing Cadence

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

George Eliot

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Richard Dawkins