D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Selfish Quotes, California Quotes

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Business Quotes , Selfish Quotes

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Character Quotes

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

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

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Judging Quotes

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Selfish Quotes

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Selfish Quotes , People Quotes

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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

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Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Thinking Quotes

No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Pain Quotes , Selfish Quotes

Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.

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Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Animal Quotes

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

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Tags : Abbas Kiarostami Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Mean Quotes

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

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The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Trust No One Quotes

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Helping Others Quotes

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Tired Quotes

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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