Quotes About Selfish

Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily preprogrammed to look out for its copies. The other half is copied from the man I admire most in all the worlds and time, so my interest is doubly riveted.

In that I was selfish. I wanted her with me always.

This argument miscarried on several counts: Rockefeller resented any references to his infamy, felt no need to cleanse his reputation, and rebelled against any insinuation that his charity was selfishly motivated.

Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.

London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself and wallowed, accordingly, in the impotence of its selfish, angry present of masks and parodies, stifled and twisted by the insupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoverished future.

Go, said the count deliberately, go, dear friend, but promise me, if you meet with any obstacle to remember that I have some power in this world; that I am happy to use that power in the behalf of those I love; and that I love you, Morrel. I will remember it, said the young man, as selfish children recollect their parents when they want their aid. When I need your assistance, and the moment may come, I will come to you, count.

I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.

You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.

An empty man is full of himself.

Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

I think the biggest thing I've learned from my international experience is that it's our systems that are different. People are the same everywhere. The system puts restraints on people. But they're good and bad, generous and selfish everywhere.

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

For a moment, I wondered if I should just tell her that she was a selfish, reckless girl who thought the world owed her something simply because she was pretty, and that I didn't want to be around when she discovered it didn't.

When you are a crank, you put yourself on the top of the list of people you make miserable.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors. It seems to me that yours is the more selfish

There were certain rules in life that had to be adhered to. You simply couldn't come between a person and his child. That would be selfish and unforgivable.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?