Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Charles Caleb Colton

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Charles Caleb Colton

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Charles Dickens

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

Charles Dickens

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Charles Spurgeon

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Swiss Proverb

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Carl Nellis

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Scott Bogumil

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Deb Caletti

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Brigitte Bardot

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

David Bowie

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Ani Difranco

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

Alec Baldwin

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Antonio Davis

I'm still doing something I love to do.