For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

He's a very selfish person.

He's a very selfish person.

Why are you so selfish?

It was very selfish, actually ...

I don't intend to be selfish.

I don't intend to be selfish.

So, technology is selfish technology is generous.

The selfish man was despised by his colleagues.

Above all things, we must not be selfish.

But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

I feel selfish and only thinking of me in Syria

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Her ambition is to become an ambassador.

Her ambition is to become an ambassador.

China s ambition is marked by muscle flexing.

When you read this prayer, it sounds incredibly selfish, self centered.

And the profound realization for me is that, if this works, the concept of the selfish gene gets kicked up a level, and we really start talking about selfish matter.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act.

Layla was known for her intellect and her ambition.

What was unusual about Bo was his open ambition.

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

And it s in a sense the most selfish thing that we can do.

The question is whether it is an ambition too far.

When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully.

You can sense its maturity and rising ambition in each episode.

Essentially, such a person is saying I am either extraordinarily ignorant, or just plain selfish.

It rewards ambition, promotes office at any cost politics, and devalues merit.

Peace was at the heart of the ambition of Europe s founding fathers.

This is a modest amount, but the initial ambition was also modest.

That ambition is to revive militarism and to achieve overseas expansion militarily.

Perhaps there are some non utopian ways of transcending selfish interests and doing what is necessary.

The temptation to appease suffering populations with populist, selfish measures may grow as the crisis deepens.

This agenda might seem selfish, though understandable from the point of view of an oil billionaire.

In 1976, the biologist Richard Dawkins identified the unit of Darwinian selection as the selfish gene.

No other country comes close to having either the capacity or the ambition.

Another test relates to the report's and, implicitly, the reform's level of ambition.

Indeed, today no European political figure of global stature offers an ambition that resonates.

Le Pen s ambition was always to save France, not to become Minister of Tourism.

And these tensions have deep evolutionary roots, so selfish behavior is adaptive in certain circumstances fight or flight.

Trading against others is regarded as an inherently selfish pursuit, even if it might have indirect societal benefits.

Why? Because the temes are selfish replicators and they don't care about us, or our planet, or anything else.

It is sometimes said that Germany has become a second France in its selfish approach to the European Union.