#selfish

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

#everything #i #i can #i do #know

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#selfishly #sexual #truly

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #i #life #my life #practice

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#empathy #first #first world #i #i think

Don’t shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #selfish #wig #funny

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#because #before #both #dated #deal

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important. ↗

— Linda Blair

#children #doing #feel #freer #had

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#focus #i #i can #kids #life

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#backward #confined #forward #generally #innovation