Top 1200 I Am Selfish Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.

I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things-I crawl under them-I climb on them-I am on the head of a galloping horse.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to have kids. I'm doing what I want to do and people who want kids are doing what they want to do. What about this scenario makes me selfish?

I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.

I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!

To call myself a fighter is to be selfish at times. It makes me resent my opponent. That's motivation I can tap into.

Yes, there will be situations when you may need to be a little selfish, but it is better to find the right balance.

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.

The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk.

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.