Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

Bill Crawford

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

C. S. Lewis

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

C. S. Lewis

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

Cecelia Ahern

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

Art Alexakis

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Charles Jencks

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Bill Shankly

I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.

Bill Cosby

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

Bill Burr

I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.

Ashton Kutcher

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.

Charles Greene

His wife said he's not going back. And she rules.

Diana Williams

his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Douglas Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Charles Barkley

My wife's married. I'm not.

Channing Tatum

I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.

Ayn Rand

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

David Ben-Gurion

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

Cory Doctorow

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

Diogenes

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

Charlotte Bronte

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

Bob McDonnell

I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Harry Browne

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Gregor Mendel

Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive.