Selfish Behavior Quotes

#1. I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

Tiger Woods

#2. Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other
her ability to make a decision and announce that there would be no further discussion was, in Lara's opinion, 'Cruel and selfish behavior, the type usually enacted by men with small penises.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#3. He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct, for miserable and desperate and selfish behavior, everybody ducking in its comet-tail like children in mommy's skirts.

Ben H. Winters

#4. We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

Joshua Harris

#5. You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.

Stephen Colbert

#6. I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

James Dickey

#7. The written word offered subversive possibilities in a dictatorship, offered some hope of freedom.

Anjan Sundaram

#8. Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

John Densmore

#9. Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

Allison Anders

#10. Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

Nicholas Kristof

#11. I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the idea of humanity. Because that's what it is, an idea. True humanity would never behave as we have behaved.

Melissa West

#12. In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Gary Hamel

#13. Thing is, we're humans. We're tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again.

James S.A. Corey

#14. It's been amazing to play the same character through so many adventures. And it's so strange because my life has changed so much over these years, but 'Twilight' and Edward Cullen will always be a part of me. It's been my whole life. My whole 20s. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Robert Pattinson

#15. Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

Anna Kendrick

#18. Humans are the killers of magic, you see.....People can be cruel, unkind, mean, selfish. We can be a great many dreadful thing, and at one time or another we are all guilty of bad behavior. What we fail to realize is that we are the only ones who can do such things.

Patrick Carman

#19. I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

Alexandra Patsavas

#20. I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#21. Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

C.S. Lewis

#22. If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

Stephen Colbert