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selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. Carol Shields
selfish rose people
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. Alan Keyes
selfish description relation
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
selfish laughing soul
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. Charlotte Bronte
selfish character government
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
selfish real character
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time. Charles Dickens
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
expectations i-can do-the-best
I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can. Carlos Beltran
expectations stupidity conform
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations. Carlos Castaneda
expectations world too-late
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
expectations people words-of-wisdom
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
expectations woods grain
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
expectations ugly helping
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
expectations shining quality
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. Charles Caleb Colton
expectations not-good-enough deadline
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. Dhirubhai Ambani
expectations assumption
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. David Kim
sake fame
Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down. David Giuntoli
sake
It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was. Jane Austen
sake
Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake! Jan Karon
sake leisure hopeless
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work. Bob Black
sake time
The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time. Tina Fey
sake privilege spirit
We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours. Bill Johnson
sake pills world
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! Edward Abbey
sake wealth making-money
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. Aristotle
sake endeavor communicate
Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others? Benjamin Franklin