People of art should never get married and have children, because it’s a selfish experience. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish — Jules Renard
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish — Richard J. Foster
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin
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
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. — Dorothy Thompson
Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children — George Bernard Shaw
I confidently trust that the american people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect — Carl Schurz
There’s no other way to be. You’ve saved me so many times…i worry that I’ve been selfish with you. — Nathan Scott
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. — Woodrow Wilson
Whether we grow more gross, more selfish, more grasping, more vulgar, more dishonorable — John H. Dietrich
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. — Anne Sullivan