Top 1200 Selfish Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

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.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

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

I just wanna keep making stuff that - in a very selfish way - I find interesting.

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

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

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

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

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

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

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

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

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

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

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

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

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

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.

I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don't like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It's the same thing with men. You have men who prefer lighter women and men who prefer darker women.

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

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

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

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

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

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

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

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.

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

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

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

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

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

Men's clothing is more pure in design. It's more simple and has no decoration. Women want that. When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this.

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

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.

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

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

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

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

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