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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Tennessee Williams

A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.

Betty Friedan

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Andrew Jackson

Just once, you should've been selfish and gone for it.

Davey Lopes

I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.

Scot Pollard

We were hopeful but surprised. We didn't want to be selfish, but it's been great.

David Frye

He's not a selfish actor. He's very giving and hands on. When you're in a scene with Robert he's there for you 150 percent, and you can't say that with all actors.

Rockmond Dunbar

I'm glad I didn't [have children] when I was younger because I don't think I could have given so much of myself to it, ... I think I would have been more selfish. I'm really glad it's happened to me later. I don't think I could have given up as many things as I can give up now.

Miranda Otto

I'm not that type of player. I don't like being that selfish player. I just look to play my hardest. I never think I'm doing well enough. I want to do my best. I don't like the attitude of thinking I'm better than others. I don't want people to see me like that.

Vicky Deely

We have run a few sets here and there for her, but not everything off her. She doesn't have to have the ball. She is not a selfish player. She doesn't force things.

Barry Eckerty

A lot of athletes are arrogant, narcissistic, prima donnas and selfish, and he never fell into that category. He's one of the most-sensitive, intelligent people I've known. When all of this is over, I'd like to be his mentor.

Dale Brown

When I watch him play at Pitt I don't recognize him. He's very unselfish and very much a team kid. But I feel he needs to be a little more selfish with his offence.

Leo Rautins

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.

William Cowper

[A sane person would have turned down the assignment.] And all this risk for what? ... To satisfy my selfish sense of curiosity? To write a magazine article?

Peter Stark

From a totally selfish point of view it's a great opportunity for me to have another go and get back out there.

Arvind Parmar

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

Jerry Lewis

You have to be selfish at this point. You're all pulling for each other, but they can't do anything for you out there. You're all by yourself.

Adam Walters

I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.

Barry C. Forbes

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Daniel Smith

I got selfish tonight. This is my last Manual game so I asked them to win it for me.

Dick Isaacson

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.

Katha Upanishad

Love is patient; love is kindand envies no one.Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;never selfish, not quick to take offense.There is nothing love cannot face;there is no limit to its faith,its hope, and endurance.In a word, there are three thingsthat last forever: faith, hope, and love;but the greatest of them all is love.

Bible

At first I thought it was very selfish, but then I thought they have a point.

Katie Ozdemir

SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Ambrose Bierce

In some ways, your Oscar speech is as important as the movie performance that got you the award. It's your chance to live forever in showbiz history. Or bore them to tears and come off as selfish and pampered.

Tom O'neil

I was so glad to see Gina get it tonight. What's impressed me most about her is how she got it. She always put the team first and was never selfish in an attempt to get her points. She's a true team player.

Bob Condrick

We are starting to play much better as a team. We're helping on defense and we're not being as selfish on the offensive end. It's nice to see and it's nice to be a part of it again.

Jill Wolf

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Mick Jagger

(Bush) is a selfish president and we're fed up. I'm going to be (at the protests) early and stay late. ... I'll camp out if I have to.

Daniel Pendergrass

I just want to be healthy. I don't want to go in there and be selfish just to keep my streak alive if I'm not able to play to my potential.

Jimmy Martin

He's a leader. He's not a selfish kid. The key thing is he just wants to win. And he had to step tonight, and he did.

Alonzo Sledge

I was greedy, vain, selfish and took bad advice from financial professionals I trusted.

Dale Brown

I still feel I have lots I want to achieve. I'm far too selfish to have babies yet.

Cat Deeley

Both Whitney and Amy are what is neat about this team. They are not selfish. It is not all about scoring. It is just about doing whatever they can to get this team a win.

Wendy Hedberg

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Kahlil Gibran

It was a collective effort. No one was being selfish and everyone contributed in some way.

Sarah Larsen

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We played together for four years and I think we're just playing really well as a team. We're not selfish with the ball.

Karson Klass

Eminent domain abuse denies the people who the Framers cared most about the right to create wealth through property ownership. This assault on our constitution not only denies them this right, but by forcing them out, it in effect creates other depressed areas that eventually will be claimed by the powerful for their own selfish gain. We must resist such tyranny at every turn.

Mychal Massie

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

Gustave Flaubert

I'm selfish. We could have been here when I played at Lancaster. I wasn't going to miss my friend win this. I've seen these kids grow up since sixth or seventh grade.

Thomas Hill

As a receiver, you're naturally a selfish player.

Kevin Johnson

They've got great technology, a number of customers. We've got great manufacturing capabilities, process technologies . . . from a selfish point of view, we're trying to diversify ourselves and this is a great way to do it.

Rick Hajec

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

Shannon Hoon

He knows how to win. He sacrificed points to help the team win. He wants to get better and is a team player. He's not selfish. That rubs off on your teammates.

Greg Heier

On supermodels: I don't let those women anywhere with me. I'm very selfish, and I hold myself in the highest regard.

Lara Flynn Boyle

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

Robertson Davies

I guess it's his style of game. Didn't he get two of them? I think it's selfish and childish of him. But, hey, he's his own man.

Odell Thurman

They've seen our country suffer in ways that none of us could have ever foreseen. There is a strong interest in giving back and being part of a society that is not selfish.

Melissa Shivers

It's very fun, especially when we are at home. The crowd just loves seeing goals. That's what everybody looks for. It's really fun because no one is selfish on our team. Everybody shares the puck and everybody's scoring.

Aaron Palushaj

You don't want to get too selfish over times. But we went out and got it done again.

Tim Mambort

I guess my experience with God had to be without external influences because I certainly wasn't listening to anyone but my selfish self.

Daniel Smith

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Clara Barton

You go to selfish mode. It all changes once the little guy comes around. You don't live for yourself anymore.

Aaron Torres

I would have liked him to play at wide receiver, running reverses and catching the ball. He could have been an All-State receiver. But he wasn't selfish. If we would have needed an offensive tackle, he probably would have done that too.

Paul Lanclos

We've just been trying to get healthy. We played well tonight. They're no selfish kids on our team — they all look out for each other.

Mark Belenski

These kids in foster care deserve someone who can give them all of their attention, and with our grandchild needing all of our attention, it wasn't fair. I feel selfish saying that.

Brenda Webb

He's always been a leader. When he was hurt in the spring, usually if a guy gets hurt and he's fighting for a spot, he might be selfish, but Drew did the total opposite.

Maurice Drew

Taking advantage of patients for your own selfish purposes, patients who expected the opposite -- to treat them honestly and to care for them.

John Watts

Sportspeople are selfish by nature and their loved ones just have to learn to deal with it.

Beverley Turner

Not aggressive going to the basket. Poor defensively. Selfish. Can't finish. Can't shoot.

Ibrahim Jaaber

Those are, I won't say selfish, but maybe lazy penalties. Those penalties usually come back to bite you.

Ryan O'marra

I'm being selfish and it's all about me on the day.

Bronwyn Thompson

He's (Favre) a very selfish guy.

Mark Chmura

It feels like high school again. I had a really good team, and I was a much better leader. When I got in college and the NBA, I became selfish. Now, I'm back to my high school days.

Ron Artest

Looking back, that was selfish of me.

Yannick Noah

We have so many weapons we don't have enough footballs. But the thing I was proud of is that we weren't selfish.

David Tibbs

I haven't been in a game for a year. You're not just going to take a run at batting practice and jump into a game, ... Quite honestly, [to play] would be for selfish reasons.

Tim Salmon

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

Our kids need to just start being selfish in the off- season, meaning that they need to be committed to becoming better every day. Next season starts right now.

Mike Trewick

It's been a long time. I don't want to be a selfish guy. I've been a point guard most of my life and I like to pass a lot. This is new to me.

Brandon Jenkins

I don't know if it was a good life. He suffered a lot. I would take Drew back in a minute any way that I could get him, but I feel that's selfish.

Shannon Olson

He's a great student and leader, kind and competitive at the same time. But what makes Bryan Randall really special is his ability to fight the human impulse to be selfish. How can you not root for him?

Kevin Rogers

Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

Bob Knight

Of course, I want to play because it's my last college game. But if I'm out there, I want to be healthy and effective. I don't want to be selfish just to keep a streak alive if I'm not able to play to my potential.

Jimmy Martin

They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.

Cokie Roberts

In the beginning, he did everything with the viewpoint of what's in it for Andre. But he transformed himself from just another selfish athlete into a generous, caring, enlightened person, someone who ran away from responsibility and now dresses himself up in it.

Jim Courier

It must be remembered that all trade is and must be in a sense selfish.

John Duke Coleridge

Insecurity is selfish.

Keri Harvey

They lied, they lied. Instead of sharing power, they would rather stick to selfish positions, and let peace slip through their fingers. That would be the most painful and inexplicable loss of all.

Michael Gallagher

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Leigh Hunt

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

Ann Richards

The truth is we're being selfish. We're getting more out of this than they are.

John Finnegan

Dream Catchers gives you license to be selfish if you want to be, ... So many people get caught up in day-to-day living and put their dreams on hold indefinitely. The program is supposed to be a kick in the ass.

John King

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Harry Chapin

It hurt us earlier in the season. Later this season guys started getting rid of the (selfish) attitude and started fighting for each other.

Jarvis Herring

(Thomas) knows it, I told him I'm selfish. I'd like to get to coach him (next year). I always feel like there's one more thing you can learn.

Jim Hueber

I'm not selfish and I don't want to come across that way, I just want to know how I'll be used at both schools.

Brandon Warren

This was like the granddaddy of bad judgment. There's no doubt what they did was incredibly selfish and irresponsible.

Dara Cashman

They weren't being selfish with the ball.

Matt Thissen

I'm excited about that. I'm excited about all this from the selfish standpoint of the Paints, but I'm equally excited that it helps from Tee Ball to high schools to colleges in all sports, and it helps the community.

Chris Hanners

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Roy Sommer

Everyone is contributing on this team. No one is laying back. They are all taking charge. There are no selfish players.

Ginny Martino

It's not like tennis or golf, where you can depend on yourself. If you come into it as a selfish person, you're not even going to make it to this league.

Greg Buckner

Her footwork is much better this year. She has a great sense around the basket. She's not selfish, either. She knows when to give the ball up or take it to the basket. She can do so many things. She's developing a real nice touch from the perimeter, too.

Steve Hare

A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Barbara Cartland

They are not selfish people, they are not using any excuse to call 'strike' and have a day off -- they are asking simply for what they have paid for and what they deserve. This immoral behavior from employers is the very reason our members are angry and frustrated. They are not militant as a rule but they have no choice other than to strike.

Dave Prentis

This case is about a selfish man - her son - who has manipulated his mother and used her as a pawn to satisfy his insatiable need for money.

Mel Sachs

We've been talking about team this season, and the guys understand that each game someone else is going to have the hot hand. They're not a selfish group. They know to give the ball to whoever has the hot hand.

Pat Dimmick

You don't want to be selfish.

Paris Smith

He's not selfish with the puck at all. He likes to pass, he likes to get it in close. As you look at the stats other players have high scoring chances, but they don't have many assists and Derek does.

Matt Wade

I think we did a better job of sharing the ball. No one was selfish, and we thrive on sharing the ball.

Aubree Johnson

Sad, selfish, self-defeating and, in the long run, incredibly stupid.

Curt Smith

He's a phenomenal player, it's a honor just to have him on the team. We only run him five, six, seven times a game, but he's not selfish at all.

Herb Fullerton

ALMA: "I rather suspect her of being in love with him."/ MARTIN: "Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!"

Jennie Jerome Churchill

It gets pretty selfish out there ... That's our goal every game.

Brad Buckman

At D.C. United, we have a way of doing things ... and people have to sublimate their egos and their selfish interests to the best interests of the group.

Kevin Payne

People think he's selfish, but Isaiah is a scorer for us and should shoot a lot. He's an incredible passer and does a lot to get other guys involved. You always have to be aware of where he is with the ball because it can come at you at anytime.

Chris Sprinker

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

[But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I am a selfish player, and I would rather not have them think of me that way.

Chauncey Billups

I think as a young guy on another team, there could be a selfish side to it.

Adam Laroche

It's just like with any other sport, if you want to get to that next level, you have to sacrifice a lot. You almost have to be selfish.

A.j. Ellison

We were a little independent and selfish at the beginning of the year, and we paid for it.

Gregg Ford

You can't come out all selfish. Not on this team, not with these guys. I wouldn't do that anyway. That's not me.

Armon Johnson

To have a team do so well, you can't have selfish kids. Everyone is unselfish, and Donna definitely leads in that category.

Megan Myles

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions— especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It was me being selfish and just going around thinking everything should go my way. I was thinking about transferring and didn't know where I was going to go, but after I sat back and talked to some people I trusted and loved, I found out that wasn't the right thing to do.

Gerald Anderson

I talked to Reverend James Lawson, that was a close ally to Martin Luther King ... and they all told me it was a bit selfish of me to not want him hooked up.

Jerry Ray

He's an awesome player. He is not selfish. He would rather pass than shoot.

Tyler Johnson

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

Harry Belafonte

You're a selfish coward and everyone hates you.

Megan Miller

It's a sport that will reward you for being selfish.

Ricky Craven

They are not selfish in the least bit; they're just very team-oriented.

Jim Kubinski

All year we hadn't been giving high-fives. We had all been selfish, kind of. Then there was one practice where everyone was talking, everyone was giving high-fives, everyone was laughing and having a good time. It was just an amazing feeling to know that we had finally gotten to that point.

Cassie Cooper

We emphasize whoever's open, let's throw him the ball. We've got plays for certain guys but the bottom line is the guys are not selfish and whoever's open gets the ball. That's what we try to do.

Stan Clark

Absolutely not. Playing selfish will get you on the bench. It's easy to pull a starter when the guy behind you is just as good, if not better.

Luke Weaver

The results are already surprising me, because I was selfish. I believe I am going to make it.

Michael Huffman

I see why people think it is, and sometimes I do. And sometimes I don't think it's selfish. I'm probably an atheist, though I was raised a Catholic - and that whole religion is based on the first suicide, in many ways.

Michael Pitt

I cannot express how I feel about the loss of our son. He can't watch his boys grow up because of what these vicious, selfish punks did. He no longer can say, 'I love you Mom.'

Gwen Davis

We've been playing very selfish lately. We're not denying the ball, getting in the passing lanes or making stops. We're not even making the easy shots.

Lou Lapenna

He is a man who is ready for redemption. He has lived a selfish, hedonistic life for the last 20 years and is now faced with looking at himself in the mirror.

Erik Thomson

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

Emmanuelle Beart