Selfishest Quotes & Sayings

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature - and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning - and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls. AYN RAND New York, May 1968 — Ayn Rand

For Feric Jaggar is essentially a monster: a narcissistic psychopath with paranoid obsessions. His total self-assurance and certainty is based on a total lack of introspective self-knowledge. In a sense, such a human being would be all surface and no interior. He would be able to manipulate the surface of social reality by projecting his own pathologies upon it, but he would never be able to share in the inner communion of interpersonal relationships. Such a creature could give a nation the iron leadership and sense of certainty to face a mortal crisis, but at what cost? Led by the likes of a Feric Jaggar, we might gain the world at the cost of our souls. No, — Norman Spinrad

The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink. - IKE REIGHARD — Zig Ziglar

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. — Lord Byron

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things. — Ian Thorpe

When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.' — Greg Camp

Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile. — Tim LaHaye

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes. — Mark Twain

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after? — George Santayana

We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the limits of Euclidean geometry. — Hermann Weyl

But to force growth is to kill it. — Jacqueline Carey

You, alone, chose and accepted responsibility for your path, and that is why you will leave this chamber on your own two feet. — Jennifer Turner