#selfish

In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#amount #been #being #being selfish #deserves

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. ↗

— George Santayana

#infinitude #man #once #overcome #own

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#selfishness

I’ve always felt that Mimi was a doubly selfish name. It’s all about me, not you, Mimi. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#selfish #funny

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#make #music #selfish #takes #time

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#couched #death #die #door #efforts

Our true passions are selfish. ↗

— Stendhal

#passions #selfish #true

Do everything that makes you happy"? Even if it means hurting somebody else? ↗

— Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

#humor #hurt #hurting #relationships #selfishness

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness. ↗

— Len Deighton

#love #selfishness #ss-gb #youth #love