Selfish Quotes - Page 27

• Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Generosity, Design, Upset

  The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)

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• The only selfish life is a timid one.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life Is

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• The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wife, Association, Action

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1043, Race Point Pub

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Night, Boredom

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Men, Vacation, People

  Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Leaving, Like You

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• he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mean, Reality, Desire

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• 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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Waiting, Mind

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 151, 1957.

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• He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Love Is, Broken

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• We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person. So it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Kindness, Feelings, Desire

  "Fruits Basket". Manga by Natsuki Takaya, 1998 - 2006.

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• The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happiness, Discipline, Generosity

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• In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school. [...] I'd still relish this moment, killing you.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Stupid, School

  "Fallen: Angels in the Dark". Book by Lauren Kate, December 10, 2013.

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• 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.

  Carol Shields

  Maturity, Years, Wish

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• I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)

  Charlaine Harris

  Unattainable, Want, Way

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• I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

  Zadie Smith

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• What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

  Donald Miller

  Dream, Mean, People

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• Yeah. Just keep the live feed going so that I can see it and pretend I’m there, too. (Tory) Yes, my queen. Anything else you’d like? (Geary) A million dollars and Brad Pitt. (Tory) You forgot world peace. (Geary) I’m feeling a bit selfish today. Teenage hormonal overdose, I think. Or just general excitement. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Queens, Teenage, Thinking

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• Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Heart, Eye

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• Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.

  Toni Morrison

  Stupid, Men, Giving

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• Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fool, Idiot, Moron

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

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Cold, I'm Tired

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• 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

  Violet, Emotion, Miserable

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• And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

  Josh Lanyon

  Horse, Arrogance, Skins

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• 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.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Party, Men, Doors

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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