Quotes About Selfish

Perhaps we are the most selfish, oddest, and cunningest medley of beings of our size in the universe. However to complete the scale of being, it seems to have been requisite that the link of being called man must have been, and since under the Divine government, we have a positive existence, we cannot ultimately fail of being better than not to have been.

I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats' selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

In the past, I've been a selfish player. I'll definitely admit that.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

I'm glad you don't see it as romantic." "Good gracious, no. It's selfish, pure and simple.

When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.

Conditional, selfish love dissipates when its conditions are not met, but unconditional, selfless love is constant and eternal.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

I know you only get one chance to make a first impression in a city - and I was so disappointed in myself for how that first season in New York had gone. It felt like a blown opportunity. It felt like I'd cemented my reputation in the opposite way that I'd wanted to. Selfish. Not a leader. Not a winning player.

What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses.

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

Collectively, they are the indolent children of inherited wealth, removed by generations from those who last made the fortune—the Greatest Generation—and too self-absorbed and selfish to consider what they in turn might leave for the next generations.

I knew it would be selfish to pour this into her cup when it was already to the brim with grief for May.

I was willful, impulsive, composed of strange hopes and selfish rebellion. I must have been very hard for her to love.

My love wants to incorporate her totally, to eat her. My love is selfish.

And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.