Sentences with phrase «selfish reasons»

I want to do what is best for him and not for selfish reasons for me wanting him here.

Seriously, for purely selfish reasons I can't wait to learn how each one of you handles the annual candy onslaught.

I would LOVE to win, for completely selfish reasons.

Players who «down tools» to force a move for personal selfish reasons should pay the club not the other way around!

You see, I have been «that guy», leading women along for whatever selfish reason or motive I had at that particular time.

But I do have one other selfish reason to love golden beets — their golden color means they're packed with minerals and nutrients (like beta carotene) that help with vision.

You therefore inevitably have a totally selfish reason for wanting to be an entrepreneur.

It's the manipulation of religion by unethical people for immoral selfish reasons that cause all of the issues associated with religion.

How would you feel about it if a decision you made for selfish reasons adversely affected the nation's greenhouse gas production rates?

Another was made with only baby food and wheat flour, which I chose for selfish reasons because there were only two ingredients and minimal opportunity to mess something up.

The irony is that he probably goes, like the rest - of us, for his own selfish reasons but receives, unexpectedly, the gift of grace instead.

I wrote this post for a completely selfish reason: to answer the many questions about indie / self - publishing I have been asked in the past year, in one convenient place.

Only for selfish reasons and if I want to let my beloved pet gamble with his life again.

If microbes in the gut or other tissues can nudge their hosts toward generosity for selfish reasons of their own, altruism may become less enigmatic.

I pursued it for very selfish reasons at the time, and realized it only brought out my insecurities that I had chosen to bury deep.

It's probably not fair us holding him back for selfish reasons even though he looks like his career could peter out in front of our eyes.

I know these will seem only like selfish reasons (to the rest of the world), but I feel my son also relax and take a break, so I know it is still a benefit for him!

In fact, I've always been intrigued by how anyone who doesn't believe in a higher power could come to the conclusion that there is any purpose to life at all beyond what we have socially or individually constructed for essentially selfish reasons.

Should I tell them that I do this for the unambiguously selfish reason that it makes me happy?

But those who keep you in the servitude of faith really do so for sordid selfish reasons.»

And all for frankly selfish reasons.

I'm just forcing women to BF because of my own selfish reasons?!

While altruism can arise spontaneously at the micro and interpersonal level, collective and political decisions usually trigger selfish reasoning.

And when the end came, I left her in peace so that she could go about the process of dying, even though, for selfish reasons all my own, I desperately didn't want her to go.

Plus, it allows me the luxury of crappy writing that can be edited later... and also for purely selfish reasons allows me to keep you (my pool of alpha and beta readers) unsullied by previous knowledge when I beg you to read it later.

Beside the somewhat selfish reasons we think but don't necessarily -LSB-...]

I have a very selfish reason for preferring the «gatekeeper» model while my reader hat is on, too.

These kinds of show breeders try and monopolize the breeding, showing, and sale of purebreds, for their own purely selfish reasons, touting the show driven * breed standard * as if it were the bible and is if they are * dog Gods *.

If I had killed you, I would have slain you not for Allah's sake but for my own selfish reason; they would then have called me not a champion warrior, but a murderer.

One of the commenters might have said it better, when he wrote, «The most selfless acts imaginable are done for selfish reasons even if only to make us feel good about ourselves.»

We are there at the emirates to show support, love, and passion for our beloved arsenal, not like him who thinks arsenal fc is a «cash cow» for his own personal selfish reasons!

The other day I was given the opportunity to review The Grain Free Snacker by Carol Lovett, and for almost completely selfish reasons I jumped on it.

Five years ago I started my first «It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch» series entirely for selfish reasons.

Sorry to crush illusions here, but White Houses do on - camera briefings for selfish reasons: to get their message out in their own words

Is there an actual need for your product, or are you trying to create one for selfish reasons?

«There are selfish reasons, such as opening employee horizons and having them learn things that can't be taught at work,» Pundyk explains.

Arrange for charitable giving for the selfish reasons of a tax write - off or good publicity.

The kingdom has selfish reasons to seek higher oil prices in coming months.

He said floor crossing would be fine if it's the result of «principled reasons» but not okay if it's done for «selfish reasons».

According to Vatican Radio, the pope told the young crowd he wanted to meet with them «for selfish reasons... because you have in your heart a promise of hope.»

But don't sleep on the lesson of his older brother, who played by all the rules but still ended up angry and discontent — because he played by them for selfish reasons.

According to Decarte there is nothing that we as humans do that is not for selfish reasons.

It is the same as those who say that folks who give or donate, since they can «write it off» on their taxes, they are only doing it for selfish reasons.

A king rules His kingdom, not sharing the throne with any other, while multitudes of men rule the church, and any room women now enjoy is likely because men have some selfish reason to let them.

to become a monk, you have to go through a process... and the other monks will not let you pursue it for selfish reasons (avoiding the world).

There are good parents that allow difficult situations to transpire to teach and there are parents that allow difficult situations to transpire for selfish reasons.

What's more, you hurt them for the selfish reason of bettering your chances at an improbable reward.