Selfish Quotes - Page 28

• Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.

  Ann Aguirre

  Mean, Leaving, Wish

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.98, Penguin

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• It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Father, Mind, Looks

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, People, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.553, Penguin

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• I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Touching, Movement

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• Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Joy, Sorrow

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Work, Loneliness, Book

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• The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Weakness, Purpose

  Robert A. Heinlein (2012). “The Star Beast”, p.190, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Evil, Doubt

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• The truth is I always loved him. From the first time I saw him he was so great. But that time I was hurt. I might have been selfish but I was so hurt. I was afraid I would feel more pain. Now I remember every time I was with Shouji I felt better. You hugged me secretly with your heart, didn't you? Now I want you to embrace me with all that warmth, with all your strength.

  Ai Yazawa

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

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• They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Thinking, Feelings

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

  Yann Martel

  Empathy, Survival, Life Is

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Kindness, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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• ‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Conceited, What Matters

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• I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he’d been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

  Cherie Priest

  Names, Guy, Douchebags

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.46, Spectra

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• Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

  Rick Riordan

  Helpful, Be Careful, Motive

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• Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Tears, Want

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• Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

  Alan Lightman

  Rain, Ocean, Unconditional Love

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• She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

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• It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

  Gayle Forman

  Done, Ifs, Wounds

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• I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.

  Gena Showalter

  Years, Two, Doubt

  Gena Showalter (2010). “The Darkest Pleasure”, p.254, HQN Books

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• No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Art, Silly

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Stupid, Evil, Ugly

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• I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Worry, Want, Too Much

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• If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

  George Carlin

  Leader, Ignorant, Citizens

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

  Randy Pausch

  Common, Common Good, One Word

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.187, Hachette UK

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