Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.

Kristen Stewart

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

Oscar Levant

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Margaret Atwood

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Margaret Chase Smith

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

Margaret Cho

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

Oscar Wilde

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Paul Reiser

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Lauren Oliver

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

Lauren Oliver

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

Irvine Welsh

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Julian Barnes

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

Kerry Bishe

I think its really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so its good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

Michael Irvin

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

Ray Bradbury

I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. I only know there has been your mind here and my mind here, and the afternoons have been like none I can remember.

Randy Pausch

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

Rajon Rondo

We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other.

Raekwon

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.

Mick Jagger

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Michael Pollan

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Sherman Alexie

I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

Sherman Alexie

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

Tom Courtenay

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

Rajneesh

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.

Norma McCorvey

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Neil Gaiman

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Neil Gaiman

And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

John Muir

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!