#selfish

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. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#cannot #fairly #get #gift #many

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. ↗

— Rick Danko

#american #american dream #apple #bad #barrel

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#around #centered #ego #life #me

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#american #any #apply #born #call

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#greedy #i #man #selfish #selfish man

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

— Bryant H. McGill

#fair #fools #hide #high #high places

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. ↗

— David O. McKay

#blackness #cannot #darkness #dispel #hatred

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#charity #charity work #feel #feel good #good

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#lazy #make #martyr #more #narrow

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#america #because #complex #down #every