Sentences with phrase «about selfishness»

At that point, she started to make a higher priority of her health and emotional well - being and let go of her concerns about selfishness when they did arise.

But even if we get what he means about selfishness, does it really have anything to do with how he became famous?

His comments about selfishness and physics, meant that people wouldn't change.

It may be about the selfishness and growing pains of its confused and embattled heroine, but it's made from the perspective of an artist who sees the world more clearly now than she did then.

The star of Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols's sci - fi thriller about a father protecting his supernaturally - gifted son, talks to Henry Barnes about the selfishness of parenthood and with the US election looming, why troubled times lead us to blindly believe in saviours.

Sri Gurudev was not talking about selfishness in moralistic terms but that sense of separation and isolation that makes you separate from everyone and your essential nature.

It is not about selfishness as much as it is about priorities.

When I voiced my concern, that it's important for my bonding — or in most cases, when I would simply go to the person and take my baby back — I would receive all sorts of teasing about spoiling my baby or even downright scolding about my selfishness.

The bottomline is that home birth is about selfishness.

You people will listen to, and believe, anything that makes you feel better about your selfishness.

C.S. Lewis gave this analogy about selfishness.

Not that I agree with AA on fighting this battle, but it's not about selfishness.

Not exact matches

Eventually selfishness will bring about failure.

And so it goes. The grandchildren are trotted out. We shudder in collective guilt, thinking about the financial hardship that our selfishness imposes -LSB-...]

According to «Christians» this creature they call Satan is all about the values of the GOP - Greed, Selfishness, Materialism, Hording their riches in off shore bank accounts, denial of the Poor and Elderly and Exclusion of anyone who does not follow the same Creature they bow to in darkness.

Contrast the «unselfish» selfishness of the Creative types who say they don't care about money: Don and, more stubbornly, Ted.

It's about avoiding selfishness.

And they understandably ask whether caring about your own first is really selfishness or the exercise of parental responsibility.

It accepts selfishness as a fact of life; it doesn't require any illusions about the innate goodness of people.

It is passing strange that the same people who describe ours as a society driven by selfishness and greed are, at the same time, so insouciant about giving people permission to kill others whom they find burdensome.

In «Lawyers, Guns and Money»» his biting satire about political intrigue and personal misfortune» Zevon captured the selfishness and cold war paranoia of the «Me Decade»:

There is nothing happy about «800,000 like minded people,» like - minded in their selfishness.

Today's world is all about greed and selfishness.

The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.

With all due respect, I must say that the experience of the last violent century, with its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grounds.

But what seems to trouble people most about materialism is the selfishness it implies.

Christianity harbours a suspicion about earthly love and friendship, because partiality in passion, or passionate partiality, is really another form of selfishness.16

And there is nothing old about it, people are doing just what they did then, the same wrongs, never doing what is righteous, but only what's convenient for them of their selfishness.

AA, religion, christ himself, science satanisim, math, medicine or whatever it is you choose to turn to try to get out of pain, remorse, guilt, anger, selfishness, legal problems, drug / alcohol abuse, financial ruin or any other negative result producing situation that you have brought upon yourself if it changes you for the betterand helps others feel better about you or themselves who cares what, who, or how someones higher power works!!!

Austere as well as paternal, authoritative and kingly as well as merciful and gracious, terrific in judgment against selfishness, cruelty, and sham as well as forgiving to outcasts and prodigals, Jesus» God was revealed not so much in the words he used about him as in the life he lived with him.

Think about it: if you sell out a friend to get ahead, did the devil make you do it, or did you just have a fit of selfishness?

Yes, Why would a God that is supposed to be about love help a political party that is so much about hate and selfishness?

In fact the story of Sodom is about violation and selfishness, not about love.

i cant just understand why arsene, one person one employee would hold such a huge club as arsenal at ransom by his inaction or silence about his future, i find that the epitome of selfishness where its all about him and he cant just separate himself as an employee and arsenal as a separate entity a club, when will this nightmare end my friends??

To make matters worse, he and Arsene have both seen him have that exceptional season, and now every time Ramsey is on the field all he can think about is replicating that, and his selfishness — runs and shots — hurt the flow of the team.

Wenger seems to be thinking short term and not thinking about the well being of the club long term when he will no longer be in the dugout... that is called selfishness.

Back home on the riverbank, I thought about the ways I had lapsed, even over the course of a week, into vanity, selfishness, and convenient forgetting.

Though our pediatrician wasn't worried a bit about my daughter, it seemed like everyone else was: parent magazines crowed about the need to breastfeed (despite running ads for formula); online parent forums held open season on the selfishness of people who wouldn't breastfeed; and I knew formula moms who had been blatantly harassed by some of La Leche League's less well - trained members.

Talking with them about how some children live without the Wii or Nintendo DS or even clean water will help foster a spirit of generosity rather than selfishness.

Their selfishness and incompetence will set this nation back about 120 years.

«The selfishness and arrogance of Charlie Rangel has no end with regard to the fact that he has clearly breached ethics rules in one way or another,» said one senior House Democratic strategists granted anonymity to speak candidly about the New York Congressman's speech.

The drama implied by competition, war and selfishness passes unnoticed because people are used to this rather hyped - up way of talking even about current scientific...

Carl Zetie is concerned about «programmed selfishness» in autonomous vehicles (Letters, 4 February) and Nicholas Thomas about passengers who suddenly...

What was — and is — most impactful about Shadow of the Colossus is its sense of scale: the immensity not only of its dramatic ruins and the sad, beautiful colossi, but of the task at hand, and its themes of death, faith, longing and the destructive selfishness of grief.

Each of the five superb actors gets a moment of dramatic glory out of Mr. MacLachlan's screenplay, which is about guilt, roots and the selfishness of implacable conviction.

The camera generally stays on her or at her level / perspective too creating a film that is all about Maisie and the effects her parents» pettiness and selfishness is having on her.

If the movie is solely about the joke regarding Hollywood vanity and selfishness, it's one that displays a surprising amount of imagination in incorporating various end - of - the - world clichés (e.g., a marauding band of cannibals) and demonic figures, which are rendered with special effects of equally surprising efficiency, into the comedy.

The movie deals with much more and it cuts deeper, and by the end we see it's about a whole system of values in which men as well as women are victims, and monstrous selfishness is held up as the greatest good.

The underlying truth is that no one cares for or about anybody else very much, and all of the fooling around is just an exercise in selfishness.

Neil LaBute's «Your Friends and Neighbors» is a film about monstrous selfishness — about people whose minds are focused exclusively on their own needs.