Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charles Trevelyan

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Charles Trevelyan

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Charles Dudley Warner

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

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.

Dave Chappelle

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

David Morse

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

Janis Joplin

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

Janet Jackson

You have to feel good about yourself.

Chin-Ning Chu

Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

Ashley Rickards

If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.

Jane Fonda

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

Dennis Prager

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

Aimee Bender

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

David Koechner

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Janet Jackson

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Deepak Chopra

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Alphonsus Liguori

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Albert Camus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Jean de la Bruyere

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.