Quotes About Selfish

After all, Sergios was not all bad. He was tough, ruthless, arrogant and selfish, but while he might have the morals of an alley cat, he had been remarkably kind to her mother.

How terribly dear!" she said. "How ineffably buddy-buddy! I shouldn't have gone running to him with my little heartache, Mr. McGee. It was selfish of me. It upset him, and it didn't do me any particular good. How can he check up on anything anyway? Why don't you just invent some soothing little story for him and go down and tell it to him and then go back to your beach-bum career, whatever it is?

I think you're being selfish." "What do you mean, selfish?" Wally asked. "A war is for your country, it's serving your country!" "To you, it's an adventure," Candy said. "That's what's selfish about it.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Apparently a 'go-getter.'" "What does that mean?" "I think it means he was an asshole

The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

I've got selfish in my old age. I live as I like.

could give them, not the dutiful, selfish and perfunctory love of an adolescent, but an understanding love that would lighten

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

When all you focus on is yourself, you'll always want more, and you'll never be satisfied with what you have.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.

Perpetually needy people suck the life out of you, because no matter what you do for them, it's never enough.

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.